Alabama

In virtually every scenario for improving and reforming Alabama’s troubled prison system, correctional officers provide the crucial pieces

ADOC will use grant funds to buy personal protection equipment for correctional officers to use when handling contraband containing dangerous narcotics

Holman Correctional Facility currently employs 72 security staff of the 195 it needs to cover all shifts, Alabama Department of Corrections spokesperson Bob Horton said

The department must show why it should not be held in contempt of court for failure to meet deadlines for increasing mental health staff in prisons

“There is a direct correlation between the level of prison violence and the shortage of correctional staff,” a state DOC spokesperson said

The $504,892 grant will go toward an existing rehab program in state prisons, in which 288 inmates are currently enrolled

Judges said the state's plan is legal because a jury finds aggravating circumstances when they determine if a defendant is eligible for the death penalty

One inmate became physically aggressive with the officer in retaliation for being ordered back to his cell

Last week, three people attempted to throw packages containing hand guns, cell phones and drugs over the prison's walls

U.S. District Judge William Keith Watkins rejected the suggestion Thursday

Accused of trying to throw guns, drugs and cellphones onto the grounds of a state prison in Springville