Prison Conditions

New Report Identifies Urgent Reforms Needed for Federal Prisons

FCC Orders Lower Prison Phone Rates

Alabama Has Nation’s Third Highest Incarceration Rate

EJI Finds Severe Physical and Sexual Abuse and Criminal Misconduct by Correctional Officers at Three Alabama Prisons

Ex-Prison Guard Convicted for Murder of Inmate Rocrast Mack

Police Chief in Alabama Suspended for Ministering to Inmate

Tutwiler Prison Ranked One of Nation’s Ten Worst Prisons

Justice Department Report Criticizes Mistreatment of Women at Alabama’s Tutwiler Prison

Second Alabama Prison Guard Pleads Guilty in Beating Death of Inmate Rocrast Mack

FCC Proposes Lowering Exorbitant Phone Rates for Calls from Prisoners

Alabama Prison to End Practice of Segregating Women Who Report Sexual Abuse

Alabama Department of Corrections Replaces Tutwiler Warden

EJI Reports on Continuing Problems of Sexual Violence at Tutwiler Prison for Women

Immigrant Detainees in Etowah County, Alabama, Protest Rotten Food and Inhumane Conditions

Another Man Murdered in Alabama State Prison

Legislature Holds Hearing on EJI Complaint Concerning Sexual Abuse at Women’s Prison