The Alabama bill would give judges discretion to split sentences up to 30 years instead of the current 20-year cap.

An Alabama state prison ... Donaldson Correctional Facility inmate, was taken to UAB Hospital on Jan. 8 to be treated for multiple heath issues, said Jefferson County Chief Deputy Coroner Bill ...

AP In 1996, while serving life in prison in Michigan for Kendrick’s murder, an Alabama jury convicted him of murdering Brown. With a vote of 10-2, it was recommended he receive a death sentence.

An inmate at an Alabama federal prison was sentenced to more than four years in a federal lockup after he punched and injured a female corrections officers earlier this year, prosecutors announced ...

MILPITAS, Calif. (KGO) -- Three incarcerated men in Santa Clara County have been charged with attempted murder after nearly beating another incarcerated individual to death at Elmwood Jail.

Senator Eloise Gomez Reyes, who sponsored that bill, told Al Jazeera in an emailed statement that the legislation seeks to “make sure that once firefighting skills are developed by incarcerated ...

The number of incarcerated people nationwide has declined, and almost 200 correctional facilities have closed in the past 20 years. The sites are being repurposed. By Amanda Abrams Diamon Pearson ...

A “vicious” killer and rapist was executed by the state of Alabama on Thursday, becoming the fourth death row inmate in the U.S. to be die by with nitrogen hypoxia. Demetrius Terrence Frazier, 52, was ...

Frazier’s final words before being executed were, “Detroit strong”, “I love everybody on Death Row,” and “Let’s go”, according to AL.com. The inmate said in his final statement ...

The chilling last words of an Alabama death row inmate have been revealed after he was executed using nitrogen gas for rape and murder. Demetrius Terrance Frazier, 52, died on Thursday evening ...