A local novelist will soon release a book detailing the time she ran a book club at a women’s prison in central Alabama.

Advocates for incarcerated men and women say they are determined to keep the public spotlight on the “humanitarian crisis” depicted in the new HBO documentary about Alabama prisons. They held a press ...

The Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles plans to offer a residential rehabilitation facility for women like the Perry County Probation and Parole Reentry Education Program (PREP) Center. Crews are ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A judge has ordered a new trial for an Alabama woman who was sentenced to 18 years in prison ...

Shoemaker was convicted of chemical endangerment in 2020, a law that Alabama has used to arrest more pregnant women than any other state.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Chase Mathis told prison guards he was being threatened by other inmates and feared for his life. But within hours of being moved to an adjacent prison, he was dead. Mathis died ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - A new HBO documentary is bringing national attention to the problems behind Alabama’s prison walls, and it was topic of discussion in the state legislature’s joint prison ...

"They don't want the public to see what's really going on on the inside..." HBO Max has revealed an official trailer for a documentary film titled The Alabama Solution, an extraordinary inside look at ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WIAT) — The Free Alabama Movement is calling for a shutdown, or an inmate work strike, on Feb. 8, 2026. It’s all a part of an effort to change the prison conditions witnessed in the ...

A Lee County judge vacated the conviction of a woman sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2020 after a stillbirth.