Last year's meeting Families of inmates describe 'horrific' conditions in Alabama prisons “Because while I was in prison, it ...

A variety of issues were brought before lawmakers Wednesday at a Joint Prison Oversight Committee hearing in Montgomery.

Family members of people locked away in Alabama’s prisons told lawmakers on Wednesday horror stories from parole hearings. They said the lack of parole — and the new parole guidelines — take away hope ...

Inmates hit each other "with bricks over a $12 drug debt that wouldn’t even exist ... if our corrections officers were not ...

The U.S. Department of Justice will be conducting an investigation into the conditions at Alabama’s prisons for men, it announced in a statement Thursday. Suggested Reading Lupita Nyong’o and ...

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation’s sixth execution by nitrogen gas. Gregory Hunt, 65, was pronounced dead ...

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation’s sixth execution by nitrogen gas. Gregory Hunt, 65, was pronounced dead ...

ATMORE, Ala. — An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation’s sixth execution by nitrogen gas. Gregory Hunt, 65, was pronounced dead at 6: ...