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

The Alabama prison system has moved three well-known inmate activists who supported a 2022 prison strike and were featured in ...

When the Alabama Legislature approved the construction of two new men’s prisons in 2021, it also committed to shuttering existing ones. HB 4, sponsored by Rep. Steve Clouse, R-Ozark, outlined ...

Robert Earl Council, Melvin Ray and Raoul Poole — featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary The Alabama Solution were placed in solitary confinement last month in what advocates believe is ...

The following is the foreword to Matthew Vernon Whalen’s new book, Bullock: Chronicles of Deprivation and Despair in an American Prison. There’s a certain kind of silence in Alabama’s prisons. It ...

A documentary chronicling Alabama’s notorious prison system has dropped on HBO. “The Alabama Solution” is a nearly two-hour look at the state’s maximum-security lockups, using footage from inside ...

One prisoner had been dead for so long that when he was discovered lying face down, his face was flattened. Another was tied up and tortured for two days while no one noticed. Bloody inmates screamed ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Family members of people incarcerated in Alabama prisons packed a Wednesday meeting of the Legislative Prison Committee and then held a rally on the steps of the Capitol. They said ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Chase Mathis told prison guards he was being threatened by other inmates and feared for his life. But within hours of being moved to an adjacent prison, he was dead. Mathis ...