Alabama is asking a federal appellate court to stop the new trial for a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row for ...

A state prison volunteer chaplain and an Alabama Department of Corrections employee were arrested this week in separate ...

A 68-year-old state prison inmate died Sunday at William Donaldson Correctional Facility. The Jefferson County Coroner’s ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — An Alabama man serving a life sentence at Donaldson Correctional Facility died over the weekend. 68 ...

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“The Alabama Solution,” a critically acclaimed documentary about Alabama’s prison system, earned an Academy Award nomination ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man who is scheduled to be executed later this month for a 1993 murder continues to maintain his innocence, saying on Wednesday, ...

An investigation is underway after a fight inside an Alabama prison left two inmates dead, the Alabama Department of ...

An Oscar-nominated documentary shot by inmates exposes brutal conditions in Alabama prisons, drawing sharp criticism from the ...

The inmate who escaped from a Florence, Alabama, jail with a corrections officer last Friday was awaiting trial on capital murder charges. But those charges were just the latest in a litany of other ...

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ATMORE, Ala. -- Thirteen minutes into his execution by injection, an Alabama inmate heaved and coughed and appeared to move during tests meant to determine consciousness. Ronald Bert Smith Jr., 45, ...