Alabama inmates

Alabama lawmakers advanced a bill making it a crime for medical examiners to retain a deceased person’s organs without family permission. The bill would make it a felony for a medical examiner to retain a deceased person’s organs without getting that permission from “the appropriate next of kin.”

An Alabama inmate seeking to block the state's plans to make him the second person to be put to death with nitrogen gas has filed a lawsuit arguing the state “botched” the first execution using the new method.

The state of Alabama has a new online system to automatically notify crime victims when a state inmate has a parole date or is being released from prison.

Current and former inmates of the Alabama prison system have filed a lawsuit challenging the prison labor program. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court says prisoners are forced to work for little and sometimes even no pay in jobs that benefit government entities or private companies. They called it a kind of ''modern day slavery."

A jury convicted a former Alabama prison sergeant of federal charges in connection with the 2018 beating of an inmate. Devlon Williams was a former sergeant with the Alabama Department of Corrections. He was convicted of deprivation of rights under color of law, falsification of records and obstruction of justice, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.

Alabama inmates could see more time behind bars under a bill approved Thursday in the Alabama Senate that restricts the use of good behavior incentives to shorten prison stays. Senators voted 30-1 for the bill. It now moves to the Alabama House of Representatives.

Alabama lawmakers advanced legislation that would restrict good behavior incentives for some prisoners to get early release. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the bill Wednesday.

The Alabama prison system is raising pay for correctional officers beginning Thursday, March 16, in an effort to address an ongoing staffing shortage.

A local nonprofit is raising concerns as the Alabama Department of Corrections releases several hundred inmates from state prisons. The early release program requires ADOC to notify victims as prisoners are let out.

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.