The wife of a 72-year-old veteran who was beaten to death by a cellmate in an Alabama jail has filed a civil rights lawsuit ...

Legislative Session for the State of Alabama begins on Feb. 4. The ACLU of Alabama says its goal this year is to expand and ...

Senate Bill 2047 by Sen. Juan Barnett proposed a four-year phase down of operations at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. More than half of its committee members voted to table the bill, ...

A federal judge has heard competing testimony over a request to block the nation's fourth execution using nitrogen gas.

A new HBO documentary set for release later this year exposes the violence inside Alabama prisons using leaked cellphone ...

Oklahoma lawmakers are gearing up to debate a variety of criminal justice bills, including one that would pause the death ...

Incarcerated men in the Alabama prison system risked their safety to feed shocking footage of their horrifying living ...

John Reed was booked into the Macon County Jail on a suspected driving under the influence charge, then was fatally attacked ...

In a contentious confirmation hearing to become the nation's top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. struggled to answer ...

Incarcerated men in the Alabama prison system risked their safety to feed shocking footage of their horrifying living conditions to a pair of documentary filmmakers. The result is “The Alabama ...

A 19th-century presidential assassination was a signature event in helping the U.S. establish a meritocratic system for filling federal government jobs. Donald Trump and Republican loyalists appear to ...

It is no secret that Alabama’s Correctional system is a nightmare, especially when it comes to our disregard for civil and human rights of the incarcerated felons in our state ...