Prison policy advocates warned the Trump administration’s "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" could devastate Alabama’s rural ...

For the second year, loved ones and advocates spoke before a legislative committee designed to curb violence and improve conditions within the Alabama prison system. Again, they described the inhumane ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Chase Mathis told prison guards he was being threatened by other inmates and feared for his life. But within hours of being moved to an adjacent prison, he was dead. Mathis ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Alabama’s prison system is the subject of a new HBO documentary set to debut on Friday. The documentary, called “The Alabama Solution,” was directed and produced by ...

The Alabama Sentencing Commission said Friday that Alabama’s already overcrowded prisons could see inmate populations rise by nearly a third by 2030 due to new punitive laws passed by the Legislature.

A camera crew visited an Alabama prison in 2019 to film an event. There was live music, barbecued food, and prayer. By all accounts, it seemed like a joyful day. But one inmate shared a message to the ...

What starts as a prison visit spirals into a six-year investigation in The Alabama Solution, HBO’s searing exposé of life inside America’s most dangerous penitentiary. Codirected by Andrew Jarecki and ...