A former corrections officer trainee was arrested Friday and is accused of attempting to smuggle contraband into an Alabama ...

Tommy Middleton was accused of attempting to smuggle contraband into Fountain Correctional Facility, said a spokeswoman for the prisons system ...

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 priority for the state lawmakers is improving Alabama’s prison system, and a big part of that is increasing the number ...

Thousands of inmates have escaped from correctional facilities across Nigeria in recent years. In the past decade, Nigeria ...

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 ...

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

State legislatures are grappling with how to fund new prisons that Republican governors say are needed to ease overcrowding.