A new HBO documentary is bringing national attention to the problems behind Alabama's prison walls. The issues raised in the ...

John Serba is a freelance writer and film critic based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Ministers and families reveal severe violence and conditions in Alabama prisons, urging urgent reform amid ongoing DOJ ...

All eyes are on the state of Alabama after a light has been shed on issues regarding the treatment of inmates in state prisons. Local activist Reverend Kenneth Sharpton Glasgow described the ongoing ...

At a meeting today of the Joint Prison Committee, leaders discussed the drug problems, abuse and need for accountability ...

It’s been one week since the release of the documentary “The Alabama Solution,” which gives a glimpse into Alabama’s state ...

A new petition is calling for a federal investigation into the death of Steven Davis, a 35-year-old inmate who died following ...

The Alabama Sentencing Commission said Friday that Alabama’s already overcrowded prisons could see inmate populations rise by nearly a third by 2030 due to new punitive laws passed by the Legislature.

Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner John Hamm gave state lawmakers an update Wednesday on the state’s new prison, a 4,000-bed specialty care facility for men in Elmore County. Hamm told the ...

In December, 33-year old Ryan Rust was found dead in his solitary cell at Alabama's Holman prison, a belt around his neck with one end tied to a bar in the cell window. "He's my little brother," says ...

(WDHN) — All eyes are on the state of Alabama after a light has been shed on issues regarding the treatment of inmates in state prisons. Local activist Reverend Kenneth Sharpton Glasgow described the ...