When Hollywood’s stars walk the red carpet for the 98 th Academy Awards tonight, one nominee will not be a love story or epic drama but the tragedy repeated daily inside Alabama’s overcrowded prisons.

The directors of the Oscar-nominated documentary open up about Alabama's prison system, Kay Ivey and Steve Marshall.

Oklahoma prisons now allow e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches for inmates and staff, sparking debate over health and safety.

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ga. — Two days after a deadly riot at Washington State Prison left three men dead and more than a dozen injured, two former Georgia inmates say the violence was not an isolated ...

Marylynn Roper is standing by in Santa Fe to anchor our coverage of the first anniversary of the penitentiary riot that occurred exactly 1 year ago today. The event, of course, shocked all of America ...