The wife of a 72-year-old veteran who was beaten to death by a cellmate in an Alabama jail filed a civil rights lawsuit Wednesday against three deputies working at the jail, alleging that the officers ignored his pleas for help.

A federal judge has heard competing testimony over a request to block the nation's fourth execution using nitrogen gas.

"Incarcerated men defy the odds to expose a cover-up in America's deadliest prison system," reads the logline for the HBO-backed documentary "The Alabama Solution." But that does not begin to describe this powerful and extremely necessary call-to-action.

Fewer people died inside the prisons than in 2023, when prisoners were five times as likely to die as the national average.

Alabama authorities searching for a 25-year-old inmate at the Hamilton Community Based Facility and Community Work Center who escaped late Saturday night.

Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman chronicle financial mismanagement, abuses of power and general inhumanities in a system allegedly designed for rehabilitation.

Supporters of Demetrius Frazier, a Michigan prisoner facing execution in Alabama, are asking Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to intervene.

The inmate's attorneys say he shouldn’t be in the state’s prison system at all, despite admitting guilt to slaying a woman in Jefferson County three decades ago.

The Alabama Department of Corrections said Pierson Anthony was incarcerated at the Hamilton facility and is believed to have walked off property about 11:20 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 25. The Department ...

Officials in Michigan will not oppose Demetrius Frazier’s execution that Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey scheduled for next Thursday using nitrogen gas. Attorneys for Demetrius Terrence Frazier, scheduled to be executed on Feb.

A federal grand jury indicted a former jail administrator for allegedly beating a handcuffed incarcerated person in an Alabama jail and then lying about it to law enforcement, the Justice Department said.

An Alabama inmate set to die next month is asking to be sent back to a Michigan prison. The state doesn't want him back.