BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - The documentary The Alabama Solution, which premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, uses video captured inside Alabama’s prisons to show violence, forced ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A guard tower at Holman Correctional Facility in 2019. Alabama lawmakers are not yet ready to commit to closing older prisons, a ...

The court acknowledged the ADOC's suicide rate was “more than double the national average among state and federal correctional facilities.” ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — 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 died ...

“In 2024 alone, 277 people died in Alabama prisons” Dakarai Larriett, US Senate candidate in Alabama, says. “Building mega-prisons, naming one after governor Kay Ivy, is not the solution.” From ...

Comeback Town is an opinion column exploring all things Birmingham. It is coordinated by David Sher. Today’s guest columnist is Allison Black Cornelius. I will never forget the sound of that door ...

An Alabama state representative said a former Department of Corrections contractor has committed millions of dollars worth of ...

The following is the foreword to Matthew Vernon Whalen’s new book, Bullock: Chronicles of Deprivation and Despair in an American Prison. There’s a certain kind of silence in Alabama’s prisons. It ...

The Alabama prison system functions like a modern-day plantation: overcrowded, understaffed prisons like Bullock Correctional Facility run on forced labor, violence, and deliberate neglect. In this ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Family members of people incarcerated in Alabama prisons packed a Wednesday meeting of the Legislative Prison Committee and then held a rally on the steps of the Capitol. They said ...

The Alabama Department of Corrections gave ABC 33/40's I-Team rare access to its efforts to stop contraband before it reaches ...