PERRY CO., AL -- Give blood or go to jail - that's the choice a judge in Alabama gave defendants who couldn't pay their fines. And now that judge is coming under fire for it, according to WNCF. An ...

FLORENCE, Ala. — Authorities issued an arrest warrant Monday for a corrections official who they say helped an inmate arrested on a murder charge escape from an Alabama jail even as they searched for ...

A Jefferson County Jail employee has been arrested on two felony charges. Laquesha Rene Green, 35, is charged with use of position for personal gain and promoting prison contraband, according to court ...

A Madison woman is accused of using a drone to try to drop marijuana to inmates at an Alabama prison. According to court documents, 39-year-old Danielle Jones flew a drone on Feb. 8 near G.K Fountain ...

PRATTVILLE − Since mold forced the closure of a county jail 15 months ago, about $2.34 million in unbudgeted expenses have been paid and a more than a quarter million miles have been traveled to carry ...

The cell where Tony Mitchell died of hypothermia and sepsis in 2023 sits empty now, but for a few spare mattresses strewn on the floor inside the Walker County Jail. “That cell, as long as I’m sheriff ...

Federal immigration authorities announced that they'll stop housing detainees at an Alabama jail with a history of problems and will limit the use of three other detention centers. U.S. Immigration ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Fernando Clark spent the last 10 months of his life in a jail cell, waiting for psychiatric treatment a court ordered he undergo after he’d been arrested for stealing ...