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No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama. Best Western, Bama Budweiser and Burger King are among the more than 500 businesses to lease incarcerated workers from one of the most violent, overcrowded and unruly prison systems in the U.S. in the past five years alone,

A voting rights group says a new Alabama law that expanded the list of felonies that cause a person to lose their right to vote is “out of step” with what is happening in most of the nation on voting rights.

A few hundred Alabama prisoners serving life sentences for crimes such as robbery under Alabama's stringent habitual offender law would see their punishments reviewed under legislation being considered.

Five inmates were hospitalized last night after a fight broke out in a prison dormitory near Birmingham.Alabama Department of Corrections spokesman Bob…

Alabama Department of Corrections officials say a state prison was placed on lockdown yesterday after inmates set a fire inside a dorm.A statement from…

Today starts the Alabama Families of Prisoners Conference in Birmingham. The two-day event was established to help families who are in need of resources…