Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A person behind bars A person behind bars. The Alabama Department of Corrections said Thursday that the Department of Justice had ...

A decade after finding that Alabama failed to protect women incarcerated at Julia Tutwiler Prison from sexual abuse and harassment, the U.S. Department of Justice is preparing to scale back its ...

Elledge was sentenced to Tutwiler in 2021 and was released on parole in 2022 after she was accepted for a spot at Lovelady Center, a Christian residential facility in Birmingham that helps women ...

WETUMPKA, Ala. (WSFA) - A federal judge Wednesday terminated most of the Department of Justice’s oversight of Alabama’s only prison for women. The Alabama Department of Corrections has been under a ...

MONTGOMERY — A Justice Department report released Friday criticizes how inmates are treated at Alabama’s lone state prison for women, where advocates last year alleged rampant sexual misconduct by ...

The Alabama Department of Corrections is opening up about its actions to fix problems at Tutwiler Women's Prison. A federal investigation recently revealed widespread sexual harassment of inmates, ...

WETUMPKA, Ala. (WSFA) - A fire at an Alabama women’s prison is under investigation, according to the state department of corrections. A spokeswoman for the Alabama Department of Corrections said the ...

Alabama is spending $1.25 billion to build a 4,000-bed prison for men intended to help with the crowding, violence, weapons, and drugs that plague the state’s aging and understaffed correctional ...