The Alabama Solution,” a smuggled cellphone chronicle of inmate deaths, sexual abuse and deplorable conditions inside what ...

In a brief but emotional hearing at the Statehouse Wednesday, advocates for prison reform in Alabama applauded a legislative ...

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“In 2024 alone, 277 people died in Alabama prisons” Dakarai Larriett, US Senate candidate in Alabama, says. “Building mega-prisons, naming one after governor Kay Ivy, is not the solution.” From ...

A new prison oversight pilot program is launching at possibly four state prisons replacing legislation that sparked emotional ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Family members of people incarcerated in Alabama prisons packed a Wednesday meeting of the Legislative Prison Committee and then held a rally on the steps of the Capitol. They said ...

An Alabama pastor is working to extend the Oscar buzz and attention from a documentary into meaningful reform behind prison ...

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Chase Mathis told prison guards he was being threatened by other inmates and feared for his life. But within hours of being moved to an adjacent prison, he was dead. Mathis ...