Two Davenport men sentenced to life in prison in different murder cases are scheduled to appear in court for having weapons ...

The Alabama Supreme Court upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit the city of Birmingham filed against Jefferson County Sheriff ...

The state's highest court has made a final decision in the legal fight between the city of Birmingham and the Jefferson County sheriff over jail housing.

Two inmates escaped custody Wednesday morning, but were swiftly apprehended, according to the Hoke County Sheriff’s Office.

An indictment filed by the Chatham County Superior Court names five inmates in relation to an aggravated assault incident ...

The 5-0 vote calls for the counties to hire a consultant to see if a regional corrections facility makes sense.

Alachua County Sheriff Chad Scott again asked legislators to support a funding request for a jail study on the future of the ...

For Charles Victor Thompson, the one constant in his life has been the almost three decades he's spent as Inmate No. 00999306 in a small, isolated prison After 27 years on Texas Death Row, Charles ...

Alabama on Thursday executed a death row inmate using a method Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor called "torturous ...

An Alabama inmate convicted of killing a man over a drug debt was set to be executed Thursday evening in the state’s latest ...

In response to the letter published on October 22 which criticized people who were protesting "something that does not exist" ...