A Madison woman is serving time in Tutwiler Prison for child sex abuse and sodomy after she was convicted in June.

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 ...

Alabama’s prisons exemplify a state system in freefall. Overcrowding is rampant, options are few, the Legislature’s responses have thus far been tepid and reports of abuse — some of it sexual — at ...