A prison advocate has been arrested on drug charges amid ongoing investigations into illegal narcotics and contraband in Alabama’s correctional system. Elizabeth Nichole “Nikki” Davenport, 43, also ...

A woman described by the Alabama Department of Corrections as a “regular inmate visitor” is now banned from entry into an ...

Without air conditioning, many of Alabama’s imprisoned residents suffer in the summer swelter. Their loved ones on the ...

This is an opinion cartoon. Alabama’s prisons have been a hellhole of corruption, violence, drugs, sexual assault, ...

Are Newports the problem with Alabama’s notoriously overcrowded and violent prison system? Many people don’t think so, and were surprised when Alabama prisons announced a move to ban tobacco earlier ...

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 ...

From chronic overcrowding and inmate deaths to systematic abuse and lawbreaking by corrections officers, prison conditions in the state of Alabama have reached a crisis point. And yet, state leaders ...

An escaped Alabama inmate was captured in Panama City on June 25. Jackie Dewayne Littrell was serving a life sentence for a 2014 robbery conviction. He walked off his work-release job site in ...

A camera crew visited an Alabama prison in 2019 to film an event. There was live music, barbecued food, and prayer. By all accounts, it seemed like a joyful day. But one inmate shared a message to the ...

Families Describe Deaths, Violence in Alabama Prisons as They Push for Change MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Chase Mathis told prison guards he was being threatened by other inmates and feared for his life.