A year after they filed a federal lawsuit to end “a modern-day form of slavery,” the plaintiffs representing prisoners in ...

A legislative committee Thursday approved legal contracts for the Alabama Department of Corrections involving prison ...

Alabama’s incarceration rate rose slightly between 2022 and 2023, with a 1.5 percent increase in inmates. Alabama saw a jump ...

A representative of the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) confirmed to the BBJ the department has entered a lease ...

The supplier fired dozens of prisoners after some of them said they felt they had no choice but to take those jobs.

Alabama’s prison system, which has been plagued with violent conditions and drug use due to understaffing and overcrowding, ...

No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama ...

Two men are facing charges after allegedly being found near an Atmore prison with a backpack full of illegal drugs and other ...

"They get new (failure to appear notices), new suspended driver’s licenses. Now, they get pulled over up the road .... now ...

according to the Alabama Department of Corrections. Agents with the ADOC’s Law Enforcement Services Division and the agency’s K9 Bureau with help from Atmore Police and the Poarch Creek Police ...

Alabama’s prison system remains under intense scrutiny as state officials work to comply with federal mandates aimed at ...

Years of overcrowding, understaffing, and allegations of inmate abuse have culminated in a series of lawsuits and federal interventions, placing Alabama’s Department of Corrections (ADOC ...