Alabama Corrections

Plea documents in the case against a former Alabama jailer charged in the death of an inmate says officers intentionally kept the conditions “as filthy as possible” in an effort to increase their salaries and the jail budget. Former Walker County lieutenant Benjamin Shoemaker agreed last month to plead guilty to three federal counts of deprivation of civil rights under color of law.

Former corrections officer Joshua Conner Jones has pleaded guilty to criminal charges for his role in the death of a mentally ill incarcerated man in Alabama. The plea deal says Tony Mitchell died of hypothermia and sepsis after being incarcerated at Walker County Jail in 2023.

A former correctional officer in Alabama has been sentenced to over six years in federal prison for working with an inmate to smuggle methamphetamine into the state facility where he worked.

Alabama Corrections Commissioner John Hamm say the state is making progress in increasing prison security staff, but will not meet a federal judge’s directive to add 2,000 more officers within a year. He said the state’s new $1 billion 4,000-bed prison is scheduled to be completed in 2026.

A Montgomery federal judge spoke his mind on the level of staffing in Alabama’s troubled prison system.

A former Alabama prison supervisor has been charged with using excessive force against two inmates. The U.S. Department of Justice also alleges Mohammad Shahid Jenkins also misled investigators.

Alabama’s parole system has reportedly hit a new low. The three-member board granted parole to just over four hundred inmates while denying well over three thousand more.

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey is seeking a pause in executions and ordering a "top-to-bottom" review of the state's capital punishment system. The move occurred after an unprecedented third failed lethal injection.

Alabama has called off a scheduled execution for the second time since September. Kenneth Smith faces the death penalty for the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher's wife. His execution was called off after the state had trouble establishing an IV before the midnight deadline to get the execution underway.

ATHENS, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man is accused of sex crimes involving three victims while he was working with a county corrections program. A statement…