If a woman is pregnant at the time she is sentenced to incarceration, the bill mandates that the court include a term of ...

I guess my question about taking on additional debt is, what are the plans to repay it?” said Sen. Larry Stutts.

Alabama lawmakers are seeking to borrow additional money for prison construction to ensure the state can build a second 4,000-bed prison.

Lawmakers presented legislation that would allow the state to borrow an additional $500 million to build two prisons, ...

Alabama bill allows pregnant women to defer incarceration and provide postpartum care for 12 weeks, with probation until that ...

An man convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday evening in ...

Demetrius Frazier, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. CST at a south Alabama prison for his murder conviction in the 1991 ...

Alabama executed murderer and rapist Demetrius Terrance Frazier by nitrogen gas at 6 p.m. Thursday. He was convicted in the ...

Alabama prison officials maintain that nitrogen hypoxia is a painless and effective method of execution, despite concerns ...

Demetrius Frazier, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. CST at a south Alabama prison for his murder conviction in the 1991 rape and killing of 41-year-old Pauline Brown. It was the first execution in ...

The Jinx' director Andrew Jarecki exposes shocking conditions in Alabama's prisons in the Sundance premiere documentary 'The ...