MONTGOMERY — In 2022, a total of 266 people died while incarcerated in Alabama prisons, the highest inmate death count in the state in more than 20 years, among the
The murder of Daniel Williams just weeks before his release from prison on a property theft charge sparked international outrage. Williams was reportedly drugge
MONTGOMERY — In an update on the construction of two 4,000-bed prisons in Elmore and Escambia counties, Alabama Corrections Commissioner John Hamm admitted that the final cost of the Elmore
MONTGOMERY — John Hamm, commissioner for the Alabama Department of Corrections, painted a bleak picture Wednesday of the current state of his department during a meeting of the Legislative Prison
The Alabama Department of Corrections is spending more on overtime — $34.6 million through late June of this fiscal year — as it works to recruit and keep prison staff.