The Alabama Department of Corrections is getting nearly $600,000 for drug treatment programs in eight state prisons.

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has awarded nearly $600,000 to the Alabama Department of Corrections to help prisoners overcome drug addictions, which likely contributed to inmates incarceration.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man in a prison jumpsuit David Lee Roberts, 59, was convicted of the 1992 murder of Aneetra Jones in 1992 and sentenced to death ...

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 ...

The Alabama Department of Corrections is getting nearly $600,000 in a grant aimed at helping prisoners overcome the drug addictions that likely led to their prison sentences.

The Alabama Department of Corrections has settled a lawsuit with an inmate who alleged that prison officials failed to deliver adequate medical attention for his toe, resulting in amputations to parts ...

LIMESTONE COUNTY, Ala. (WAFF) - An Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) security guard was arrested in Limestone County. Authorities said on Wednesday that the ADOC Law Enforcement Service ...

ALABAMA (WRBL) — An inmate who escaped custody from the Alabama Department of Corrections has turned himself in, according to Crime Stoppers. Initially, law enforcement was searching for 66-year-old ...

According to a Alabama Department of Corrections news release, at about 6 p.m. Monday, officers performed their regular head count and bed roster and found that 31-year-old Shaquille Keshon Brown was ...

We need prisons. They should confine violent felons and people who steal, whether from a convenience store or a pension fund. But by every legal, financial and humanitarian standard, the Alabama ...

The night featured high school and middle school bands, dance teams and more on the stage at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. While severe weather happens year-round in Alabama, the state is quickly ...