inmate assault

A former corrections officer at the Walker County jail has agreed to plead guilty to a criminal charge in the death of a mentally ill man who died of hypothermia after being held naked in a concrete cell for two weeks.

A former correctional officer in Alabama was sentenced to more than seven years in prison for using excessive force on an inmate and lying on a report in an attempt to cover it up.

Federal prosecutors say a former Alabama prisons officer was convicted of civil rights charges for the beating of three prisoners with a baton and writing a false report to cover up the beatings.

Alabama prison staffers have been charged with beating an inmate and then making false statements about it. The U.S. Department of Justice announced the…

The state of Alabama is asking for a lawsuit from the U.S. Justice Department about prison conditions to be dismissed. The suit, filed in December, claims…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A state inmate has died after being assaulted by another prisoner. The Alabama Department of Corrections says 46-year-old Demarcus…