Walls covered in mold. Dead rats floating in water tanks. Lockups without working toilets. Every month, around 30 reported rapes and an average of one prisoner killing another. Those are the ...

Days after the contractor building Alabama’s new $1.25 billion prison missed its completion deadline, lawmakers from both parties are blaming the state for problems that have driven up costs and ...

Alabama sold more than $190 million worth of bonds earlier this month to Regions Capital Advantage, a division of Regions ...

The speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives Thursday called for construction on a men’s prison in Escambia County to stop amid rising costs and delays in the completion of another prison in ...

Alabama approves the Escambia prison construction contract in a 6-1 vote, advancing the new facility in its prison plan.

Alabama's AG candidate calls prison overcrowding criticism “hype” weeks before a federal trial over conditions inside the ...