An Alabama prison inmate was fatally stabbed inside William Donaldson Correctional Facility in west Jefferson County. The ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 state of Alabama executed convicted murderer and rapist Demetrius Frazier on Thursday night after a legal appeal to ...

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 ...