Updated parole guidelines are now in place for offenders in Alabama, according to the state Bureau of Pardons and Paroles.

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

The head of the Alabama Department of Corrections told legislators Wednesday that the department is still struggling to fill vacant positions. Commissioner John Hamm told the Joint Prison ...

On Thursday evening, July 10, 2025, Alabama Department of Corrections K-9 officers were alerted to possible trespassers at ...

The Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles has adopted revised parole guidelines following an extensive review and input period ...

The Alabama Department of Corrections' commissioner says this is one of the biggest graduating classes he has seen since joining the department.

A federal appeals court has ruled Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man sentenced to death in 1990.

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.

The Alabama Department of Corrections is responding to criticism from families of incarcerated people.

The Alabama Department of Corrections has built playgrounds at two separate prisons in the Montgomery area. The team decided to build the playgrounds after reading a study by the National ...

Drug smuggling by staff has become a recurring problem in Alabama's prison system, along with assaults and overcrowding.

A man who killed a store clerk during a robbery at an Alabama convenience store in 1997 now knows when he will put to ...