
An Opelika woman was sentenced to 11 years behind bars in a commercial sex trafficking scheme that involved a minor.

The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) announced multiple arrests in consecutive days, which brought a total of four people arrested and charged with trying to bring contraband into Ventress Correctional Facility in Clayton.

Joran Van der Sloot doesn’t want to live anymore, according to officials inside the Challapalca maximum security prison in the Tacna region of Peru.

The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) announced the arrest of one of its own for drug possession.

Xiaoqin Yan, the Chinese woman convicted of arson and possessing a firearm by an illegal alien and sentenced to eight and a half months in prison, could now face up to five years after she escaped prison.

Former Limestone County Sheriff Mike Blakely was released from jail after serving over a year on two convictions.

Prison records show a registered sex offender who is accused of attempted rape in Foley had a violent past, even while behind bars for nearly 20 years.