I guess my question about taking on additional debt is, what are the plans to repay it?” said Sen. Larry Stutts.

Alabama politicians pushed ahead a bill to reshape the state parole board on Wednesday, looking at ways to improve how ...

A bill to expand the state’s definition of sexual extortion to include threats of what is often referred to as “revenge porn, ...

Cordel Ladon Battle was found with sustained sharp force injuries during a reported assault, according to the Jefferson ...

Alabama lawmakers are seeking to borrow additional money for prison construction to ensure the state can build a second 4,000-bed prison.

Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 ...

A body that was discovered in Alabama nearly 20 years ago was identified as an escaped inmate who had been using a fake name, ...

67-year-old Steven Fike, in Boston’s Suffolk Superior Court direct from Alabama where he is serving time for a 1982 rape and ...

The medications “help to bridge that gap between 'I want to get clean' and getting clean," a prisons official said.

The Jinx' director Andrew Jarecki exposes shocking conditions in Alabama's prisons in the Sundance premiere documentary 'The ...

Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman chronicle financial mismanagement, abuses of power and general inhumanities in a system ...

Demetrius Terrence Frazier, 52, was convicted of the 1991 murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown. Frazier raped and shot her ...