About 150 to 200 people who have been in prison at least 25 years would be eligible to apply for a shorter sentence.

Tuscaloosa's own Ted Sexton is among a handful of new hires at the Alabama Department of Corrections, which oversees the ...

An Alabama state judge ruled that a lawsuit accusing Alabama prisons of illegally harvesting the organs of people who died while incarcerated will be allowed to proceed.

James Jones is one of thousands of men who served life without parole in an Alabama prison. He spent 43 years at the St.

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. at the Louisiana State ... Alabama first used nitrogen gas to put Kenneth Eugene Smith to death last year, marking the first time a new ...

“I’m kind of disturbed about the state of Alabama investing billions of dollars in prisons and rural hospitals are closing. Education is 43 in the nation,” Rep. Thomas Jackson, a Democrat, said.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a bill to increase the state's prison bond authorization by $500 million on Monday. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a bill to increase the authorization for prison bonds ...

It’s already a Class C felony to impersonate a police officer in Alabama, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, according to state code. But under the new law, this crime now extends to those ...

Between 2006 and 2015, the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Division of Autopsy got 23% of their yearly income from the Department of Corrections autopsies and 29% from the state’s ...