Alabama Deparment of Corrections

Two corrections officers have agreed to plead guilty to federal charges related to the death of a mentally ill man who died of hypothermia in jail. Tony Mitchell was arrested in 2023. He was kept naked in a concrete cell at the Walker County Jail with no bedding or running water for two weeks.

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.

An Alabama inmate on death row, whose death sentence led to discussions about the Constitutional right of religious freedom, will be executed on Thursday, July 18 by lethal injection. Keith Gavin is Muslim. He’s sentenced to death for the 1998 murder of a delivery driver.

The state of Alabama has set an execution date for a man convicted of a 1991 murder. Fifty-one-year-old Willie B. Smith III is scheduled for an execution…