An Alabama prison activist and inmate is on his third week of a hunger strike, and his nonprofit is asking the prison system to step up their monitoring. Kenneth Traywick is on day 22 of his hunger ...

Advocates for incarcerated men and women say they are determined to keep the public spotlight on the “humanitarian crisis” ...

By Hanna Rantala LONDON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - When filmmakers Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman visited an Alabama prison in ...

The documentary 'The Alabama Solution' is an exposé on the state's oppressive prison system. Filmmakers Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman explore overcrowded institutions, systemic violence, and ...

Family members of men and women incarcerated in Alabama prisons say they want to keep a public spotlight on problems in state lockups.

Alabama told the Supreme Court on Wednesday the state should be allowed to execute a man federal courts have repeatedly said ...

Casey White, the inmate who escaped from an Alabama jail with corrections officer Vicky White, has been indicted for felony murder in connection to her death, according to Lauderdale County Circuit ...

A corrections facility that costs $300 million than expected, and then $300 million more? Eh, not worth our attention.

The pulverized face of Steven Davis tells a terrifying story of conditions inside Alabama state prisons – his eyes swollen shut, his bruised flesh a deep purple. “They beat him so badly his head was ...

Derrick Dearman appeared to be high on drugs in his Alabama prison in the days leading up to his execution. The convicted killer raged in phone calls and emails, anguishing over how his willingness to ...