Alabama executed Demetrius Frazier for the 1991 murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown two days before Thanksgiving.

Alabama is building a 4,000-bed prison in Elmore County and plans to build another 4,000-bed prison in Escambia County.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers are seeking the ability to borrow an additional $500 million for prison construction after the price of the state’s new mega-prison rose to over $1 billion, ...

The previous three have been contentious points of conversation nationwide because of the controversial method that the State ...

The Alabama Supreme Court recently issued an order to the Alabama Department of Corrections to carry out Frazier's execution by nitrogen hypoxia. Frazier had two visitors and one phone call on ...

A bill upping the amount the state can borrow to build a second 4,000-bed prison was approved by the Alabama Senate.

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

Ten former New York corrections employees have been indicted in the death of Robert Brooks, according to an indictment ...

A grand jury recommended abolishing a small Alabama police department that it said operated as a criminal enterprise.

Frazier remained in the legal custody of the Michigan Department of Corrections, a state where the death penalty was outlawed in 1847. But he was executed in Alabama, where he was transferred ...

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

Alabama Senate passes a bill allowing $500 million more for state prison construction, raising borrowing to $1.28 billion.