Mobile and Baldwin County News
An associate commissioner at the Alabama Department of Corrections has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation, the agency said Tuesday. Prison system spokesman Bob Horton…
Alabama's attorney general candidates, Republican incumbent Steve Marshall and Democratic challenger Joseph Siegelman, are staking out different positions on police body camera policy, prison overcrowding and the fallout from the…
Alabama executed Robert Bryant Melson at Holman Correctional Facility near Atmore for the 1994 killings of three Gadsden fast-food workers, the state's second execution in two weeks.
The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help locating an inmate who walked away from a work release assignment in west Mobile, and deputies are urging anyone…
A Gulf Shores patrol officer captured a fugitive who had spent two weeks on the run after escaping a Troy work-release job assignment in Alabama.
An Alabama inmate who escaped a Camden work-release center in June 2015 was believed to have family ties in Mobile, prompting a multi-agency search.
Baldwin County's sheriff says fingerprints from a severed hand found near Magnolia Springs don't match an escaped work-release inmate.
Saraland police arrested an escaped work-release inmate who had been on the run since late October after he gave officers false information.
A Prichard work-release inmate serving a robbery sentence is back at Holman Correctional Facility after taking a state van on a brief unauthorized joyride over the weekend.
Mobile County District Judge Michael E. McMaken pushed back on criticism of a 'revolving jailhouse door,' arguing that preset bonds, jail overcrowding and shrinking court budgets were bound together in…