St. Clair Correctional Facility

The federal government is rolling back almost all oversight over an Alabama women's prison on Thursday, according to the state's Department of Corrections. Nine years ago, the Department of Justice published a report that found chronic sexual abuse at the facility and initiated a consent decree.

PELL CITY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama jail is temporarily closing on Monday. According to a news release, the St. Clair County Jail in Pell City will be…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama prison system says that a third inmate has died after testing positive for COVID-19 as the number of cases among…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama prison system says a second inmate has died after testing positive for COVID-19. William Hershell Moon, a 74-year-old…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to consider the appeal of an Alabama death row inmate convicted in two slayings. The justices…

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — A search of Fountain Correctional Facility in Alabama's Escambia County has found more than 600 makeshift weapons, 51 cellphones,…

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Less than a week after an Alabama inmate ended a hunger strike to protest the use of solitary confinement, eight more prisoners have…

In the span of three hours at a southwest Alabama prison, one inmate was fatally stabbed and another was seriously wounded after being stabbed in a…

An inmate was fatally stabbed at a state prison in Springville, Alabama last weekend.Alabama Department of Corrections spokesman Bob Horton says the…

Authorities say an inmate who escaped from an Alabama prison has been recaptured in Florida. The Alabama Department of Corrections said in a news release…