Hundreds of Alabama prison healthcare workers are fighting to be paid for shifts they've already worked after their employer ...

An Alabama prison activist and inmate is on his third week of a hunger strike, and his nonprofit is asking the prison system to step up their monitoring. Kenneth Traywick is on day 22 of his hunger ...

In a brief but emotional hearing at the Statehouse Wednesday, advocates for prison reform in Alabama applauded a legislative effort they believe represents a long overdue attempt to bring ...

A Birmingham law firm seeks to withdraw from representing YesCare, a Tennessee healthcare company.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama prison system has moved three well-known inmate activists who supported a 2022 prison strike and were featured in an Oscar-nominated documentary about the troubled ...

On the Friday, March 6, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: “The Alabama Solution” offers rare, unfiltered access inside Alabama’s prison system, exposing the stark human cost of mass incarceration.

A camera crew visited an Alabama prison in 2019 to film an event. There was live music, barbecued food, and prayer. By all accounts, it seemed like a joyful day. But one inmate shared a message to the ...

Most Alabama politicians call themselves fiscal conservatives. But in Alabama, fiscal conservatism is usually performative and never consistent. We often hear boasts that Alabama balances its budgets.