Holman Correctional Facility

A correctional officer in Alabama has been arrested on suspicion of smuggling methamphetamine into the maximum-security prison where she worked. A complaint alleges the 48-year-old officer smuggled the drugs into the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore and then distributed it to an incarcerated person.

Officials say a state prison in Alabama's troubled corrections system will be largely shut down because of infrastructure problems that were the…

The Alabama Department of Corrections is investigating the death of an inmate who officials say was assaulted by a fellow prisoner. The department…

Two Alabama prison officers are on leave as the department probes the use of force in the death of a state inmate. The Alabama Department of Corrections…

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

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…

As Alabama grapples with a major shortage of correctional workers, more than 60 percent of the required staff positions at the overcrowded,…

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…