Alabama lawmakers are advancing a bill that would put oversight on the state’s parole board. The parole board has garnered ...

At Nottoway Correctional Center, the outlook was bleak. Two nurses at the all-male state prison staffed a day shift meant to be staffed by eight. Emergency medical requests from inmates were ...

Lawmakers presented legislation that would allow the state to borrow an additional $500 million to build two prisons, ...

The bill moved to the full House of Representatives for consideration, passing the House Judiciary Committee with 8 votes in ...

I guess my question about taking on additional debt is, what are the plans to repay it?” said Sen. Larry Stutts.

Alabama lawmakers are seeking to borrow additional money for prison construction to ensure the state can build a second 4,000-bed prison.

Gov. Jeff Landry announced the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has implemented protocol to carry out death sentences using nitrogen gas.

Seven other corrections officers and one nurse contracted by the jail have pleaded guilty to federal charges related to ...

Demetrius Frazier apologized to the loved ones of one of the women he murdered and uttered two final words before he was ...

A convicted murderer and rapist was executed by nitrogen gas on Thursday — 14 years after he was transferred to Alabama while ...

Frazier was the state’s first execution of 2025, and the fourth carried out by nitrogen hypoxia. Frazier was executed for the 1991 rape and murder of Pauline Brown. Prosecutors said Frazier broke into ...

Alabama death row inmate Demetrius Frazier became the first person executed while in the custody of the state of Michigan Thursday night.