With the new legislative session getting underway next week, advocates are calling attention to conditions inside Alabama's ...

Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman chronicle financial mismanagement, abuses of power and general inhumanities in a system ...

Legislative Session for the State of Alabama begins on Feb. 4. The ACLU of Alabama says its goal this year is to expand and ...

Senate Bill 2047 by Sen. Juan Barnett proposed a four-year phase down of operations at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. More than half of its committee members voted to table the bill, ...

A documentary aired at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah is going behind bars in Alabama prisons revealing what conditions are like inside.

The wife of a 72-year-old veteran who was beaten to death by a cellmate in an Alabama jail has filed a civil rights lawsuit against three deputies working at the Macon County jail. The lawsuit filed ...

A federal judge has heard competing testimony over a request to block the nation's fourth execution using nitrogen gas.

A new HBO documentary set for release later this year exposes the violence inside Alabama prisons using leaked cellphone ...

Oklahoma lawmakers are gearing up to debate a variety of criminal justice bills, including one that would pause the death ...

Incarcerated men in the Alabama prison system risked their safety to feed shocking footage of their horrifying living conditions to a pair of documentary filmmakers. The result is “The Alabama ...

South Carolina is preparing to execute the third inmate to be put to death since September as the state goes through a ...

Incarcerated men in the Alabama prison system risked their safety to feed shocking footage of their horrifying living ...