Alabama Department of Corrections authorities are investigating after a man was killed at the William Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer. According to Jefferson County officials, 30-year-old ...

The bill moved to the full House of Representatives for consideration, passing the House Judiciary Committee with 8 votes in ...

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

Cordel Ladon Battle was found with sustained sharp force injuries during a reported assault, according to the Jefferson County Coroner.

Prison officials said an inmate serving time for a robbery in Madison County died Tuesday as a result of an assault.

An Alabama prison inmate was fatally stabbed inside William Donaldson Correctional Facility in west Jefferson County. The ...

An inmate at the William Donaldson Correction Facility died Tuesday after a reported assault in the prison. Cordel Ladon Battle, 30, was pronounced dead at 7:28 p.m. Tuesday after suffering “sharp ...

An inmate at William Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer, Alabama, has died from sharp force injuries sustained ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has implemented protocol to carry out death sentences using nitrogen gas.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Officers intentionally kept the conditions in a local Alabama jail “as filthy as possible” to convince county commissioners to increase salaries and jail budget, a ploy that ...

Frazier was the state’s first execution of 2025, and the fourth carried out by nitrogen hypoxia. Frazier was executed for the 1991 rape and murder of Pauline Brown. Prosecutors said Frazier broke into ...