Alabama Inmates Plan Work Strike as Families Say Crisis Continues in the Prison System ELMORE, Ala. (AP) — Family and advocates of people incarcerated in Alabama prisons on Thursday said they want to ...

Families of Alabama inmates urged lawmakers to address poor prison conditions, citing violence, inadequate healthcare, and shortages of basic necessities. The calls came as officials confirmed the ...

“In 2024 alone, 277 people died in Alabama prisons” Dakarai Larriett, US Senate candidate in Alabama, says. “Building mega-prisons, naming one after governor Kay Ivy, is not the solution.” From ...

Several Alabama legislators hope an upcoming audit of the Alabama Department of Corrections will pull back the curtain on an agency engulfed in violence and consuming an ever-larger share of the state ...

The Alabama prison system functions like a modern-day plantation: overcrowded, understaffed prisons like Bullock Correctional Facility run on forced labor, violence, and deliberate neglect. In this ...

Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner John Hamm said Thursday the state is making progress toward fixing a long-time severe shortage of security staff. Hamm said the ADOC had 473 graduates ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama prison system has moved three well-known inmate activists who supported a 2022 prison strike and were featured in an Oscar-nominated documentary about the troubled ...

When Hollywood’s stars walk the red carpet for the 98 th Academy Awards tonight, one nominee will not be a love story or epic drama but the tragedy repeated daily inside Alabama’s overcrowded prisons.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay ...