One prisoner had been dead for so long that when he was discovered lying face down, his face was flattened. Another was tied up and tortured for two days while no one noticed. Bloody inmates screamed ...

An Oscar-nominated documentary shot by inmates exposes brutal conditions in Alabama prisons, drawing sharp criticism from the ...

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 ...

Two Birmingham-area women are under arrest by state prison officials on drug charges. A search warrant at a Hoover home on Wednesday turned up 4 pounds of flakka and a flakka manufacturing lab. Later ...

Criminal justice reform advocacy groups plan to support bills targeting parole, prison conditions and the death penalty in ...