An inmate in the federal prison in Jefferson County has died after being found unresponsive in his cell late Saturday afternoon.

A Madison County detention officer has been arrested after investigators say he attempted to smuggle contraband items into the jail. Kadarius Shermaine Todd, 28, is being held in the Madison County ...

Tuscaloosa's own Ted Sexton is among a handful of new hires at the Alabama Department of Corrections, which oversees the ...

I’ve been sick damn near two weeks. I’ve got a bad cold. I probably have pneumonia, man,” says “Jordan” when I interview him ...

A big part of that is increasing the number of correctional officers. Thursday the Alabama Department of Corrections ...

The Alabama Department of Corrections reports more than 4,600 inmates have been diagnosed with mental impairment. Russell ...

The Alabama House of Representatives approved a billincreasing the amount the state can borrow to build a second mega prison in Escambia County.The Alabama Co ...

If a corrections bill in the Florida Legislature passes, the state could see death row prisoners executed by firing squad or ...

A plan to build a 3,000-inmate prison in Arkansas hit a roadblock in the state Senate on Tuesday, while the Alabama ...

Craig Williams, an inmate at SCI Albion, sued the Department of Corrections in 2023 after it changed a longstanding policy on ...

The Alabama Supreme Court recently ruled that the case of a man who died by suicide in Limestone Correctional Facility will ...