This is an opinion cartoon. Alabama’s prisons have been a hellhole of corruption, violence, drugs, sexual assault, overcrowding and conditions so dangerous the federal government has spent years ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Families, friends and advocates walk to protest prison conditions at the front of the Alabama Department of Corrections on ...

The Birmingham-based healthcare provider that won an emergency contract to provide services in Alabama prisons has faced controversies over its services in other states. NaphCare, which signed a $500 ...

Family members of state inmates wore red T-shirts with the words “Alabama Dept. of Corruptions” to the State House on Wednesday. Shannon Quinley of Monroe County said they wanted to send a message to ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s prison system, badly overcrowded and facing a lawsuit over medical treatment of inmates, is facing its worst outbreak of tuberculosis in five years, a health official ...

Federal attorneys last week accused Alabama of failing to correct conditions in prisons like Limestone Correctional Facility that amount to cruel and unusual punishment. Tags ...

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A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday agreed that people incarcerated within Alabama's prisons are not receiving adequate mental healthcare — but rolled back ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alabama's prisons have been a hellhole of corruption, violence, drugs, sexual assault, overcrowding and conditions so dangerous ...

Several Alabama legislators hope an upcoming audit of the Alabama Department of Corrections will pull back the curtain on an agency engulfed in violence and consuming an ever-larger share of the state ...