A former state prison system guard has been charged with promoting contraband on the job. On June 15, a correctional officer was discovered passing contraband food items to an inmate at St. Clair ...

Former WBRC anchor Beth Shelburne worked as a producer on a new HBO documentary examining the serious problems within Alabama ...

An inmate serving time in an Alabama prison for a murder conviction is being indicted on two new counts, according to court ...

FLORENCE, Ala. -- The corrections officer and escaped murder suspect who have been missing for days had "a special relationship," the local sheriff confirmed. Inmate Casey White and Lauderdale County ...

A federal judge has granted the Alabama Department of Corrections' request to keep sealed part of a consultant’s report on how it can recruit and retain more correctional officers by increasing their ...

The inmate who escaped from a Florence, Alabama, jail with a corrections officer last Friday was awaiting trial on capital murder charges. But those charges were just the latest in a litany of other ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) announced three arrests made in connection to an alleged prison contraband sting. According to a news release, ADOC’s narcotics ...

Casey White, the inmate who escaped from an Alabama jail with corrections officer Vicky White, has been indicted for felony murder in connection to her death, according to Lauderdale County Circuit ...

Roughly 13 minutes into “The Alabama Solution,” a revelatory new documentary about the long-simmering humanitarian crisis in Alabama’s state prisons, filmmakers Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman ...