There are two elements critical to a functioning prison system. Security and hope. Alabama doesn’t do well on either.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Monday appointed a corrections deputy as head of the state parole board, replacing the outgoing chair who led the board during a period of few releases.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has appointed a new head of the state parole board. Ivey said Monday she has appointed Hal Nash as the ...

Gov. Kay Ivey’s office said Wednesday it plans to name a member of the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles within the next few days, whether or not that’s Chair Leigh Gwathney. “The ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has appointed a new head of the state parole board. Ivey said Monday she has appointed Hal Nash as the new chair of the three-person Board ...

You hear a lot of stories if you spend many hours getting chemo at the cancer center. One thing I recently learned is that since the hemp bill has passed ...

An Athens woman was arrested last week for possessing smokeable hemp, seven days after Gov. Kay Ivey signed a law making it a Class C felony, according to a complaint filed Thursday by Athens police.

The new guidelines are stricter in terms of they weigh an original crime and put more emphasis on behavior in prison.

Alabama has scheduled a September execution with nitrogen gas for a man convicted of killing a gas station attendant during a 1997 robbery.

Kay Ivey set a Aug. 21 execution date for David Lee Roberts after ... Jurors voted 7-5 to recommend that he receive life in prison without possibility of parole. A judge overrode the recommendation ...