Elmore Correctional Facility

The cost of a new Alabama super-size prison now under construction rose to more than $1 billion, complicating the state's plans to build two of the behemoth facilities. The Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority approved a final price of $1.08 billion for the prison now under construction in Elmore County.

Two inmates and a correctional officer were arrested Thursday after an inmate died in Elmore, Alabama, authorities said.

ELMORE, Ala. (AP) — A fourth inmate in Alabama had died after testing positive for COVID-19 as the number of virus cases in the state systems continues to…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Two Alabama inmates who say they were beaten while handcuffed by a prison guard have sued him and other prison employees for…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Department of Correction is investigating the death of two inmates.The prison system said in Friday news release that…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A former Alabama Department of Corrections guard has pleaded guilty to assaulting two handcuffed inmates at a state prison.Federal…

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…

Another Alabama inmate was found stabbed in a state prison yard earlier this week.Officials with the Alabama Department of Corrections say Timothy…

Yet another inmate has been killed at a state prison near Montgomery.An Alabama Department of Corrections statement says 36-year-old DeMarko Quinta…

Prison officials in Alabama are investing the beating death of an inmate who was attacked by other prisoners late last week — the second deadly attack on…