A Montgomery-based law firm with an attorney facing possible sanctions for filing a legal brief with fabricated citations ...

Attorney General Gentner Drummond and Public Safety Commissioner Tim Tipton are named in the federal lawsuit targeting a 2007 state law that singles out “aggravated” or “habitual” sex offenders.

The Alabama Department of Corrections will miss a July federal court deadline to hire additional correctional officers, but ...

As a lawsuit tries to stop a forced prison labor program, a beer distributor is defending its own participation.

On June 15, a correctional officer was discovered passing contraband food items to an inmate at St. Clair Correctional ...

A St. Clair County correctional officer has been arrested after authorities say she passed contraband food items to an inmate at the St. Clair County Correctional Facility. Airika Dorsey was arrested ...

Correctional officer Airika Dorsey arrested for passing contraband at St. Clair. Investigation ongoing; more charges possible ...

A correctional officer at St. Clair Correctional Facility was arrested on Sunday, June 15, 2025, after being discovered ...

An Alabama state judge ruled that a lawsuit accusing Alabama prisons of illegally harvesting the organs of people who died while incarcerated will be allowed to proceed.

A corrections officer has been arrested on charges of smuggling methamphetamine into the maximum-security prison where she worked.. The unnamed 48-year-old officer was charged with attempting to ...

Alabama Department of Corrections via AP Miller was among the vast majority of inmates on Alabama's death row whose jurors did not unanimously recommend a death sentence — roughly 80%, according ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Department of Corrections claims its new class of recruits will help improve safety.However, questions remain about the conditions of the state’s prisons. On ...