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 ...

A documentary chronicling Alabama’s notorious prison system has dropped on HBO. “The Alabama Solution” is a nearly two-hour look at the state’s maximum-security lockups, using footage from inside ...

"Punishing incarcerated people for refusing to work indeed violates the state constitution’s ban on involuntary servitude and slavery." ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — 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 died ...

One prisoner had been dead for so long that when he was discovered lying face down, his face was flattened. Another was tied up and tortured for two days while no one noticed. Bloody inmates screamed ...

The following is the foreword to Matthew Vernon Whalen’s new book, Bullock: Chronicles of Deprivation and Despair in an American Prison. There’s a certain kind of silence in Alabama’s prisons. It ...