The buzz is already underway ahead of this year’s Academy Awards. One nominee for Best Documentary Feature Film may be ...

Three Alabama prison inmates featured in an Oscar-nominated documentary have filed a federal lawsuit alleging their abrupt ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A guard tower A guard tower at Holman Correctional Facility in 2019. Alabama lawmakers are not yet ready to commit to closing ...

The Justice Department threatened to sue the Alabama state prison system Wednesday over shocking and brutal conditions uncovered during a 2 1/2-year investigation into the state’s massively ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Hamm, the commissioner of the Alabama Department of Corrections, speaks during a budget hearing at the Alabama Statehouse on ...

Tyrone Davis, 50, of Montgomery, and Kelvin Gibbons, 49, of Clanton, are charged with trafficking methamphetamine, ...

A report this week by the U.S. Department of Justice describes disturbing conditions in Alabama's prison system. It highlights prisoner-on-prisoner violence and sexual abuse, issues of overcrowding ...