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 ...

The cotton is just beginning to bloom. It’s late August in the Mississippi Delta, an alluvial plain formed by soil deposited ...

WETUMPKA, Ala. — In the pink-walled dormitory of the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women, nearly all of the inmates had risen before dawn. Some sat on one another’s beds, applying makeup and sipping ...

TUTWILER, MISSISSIPPI — The cotton is just beginning to bloom. It’s late August in the Mississippi Delta, an alluvial plain formed by soil deposited from the Missouri, Ohio and Mississippi rivers over ...

WETUMPKA, Ala. — Inmates at an Alabama women’s prison are now able to pump breast milk in lactation rooms for their babies who are outside the prison’s walls. The nonprofit Alabama Prison Birth ...