On Monday, the Board of Supervisors agreed to enter a contract with a private sector company to run branches in the upper ...

Former Walker County lieutenant Benjamin Shoemaker agreed last month to plead guilty to three federal counts of deprivation of civil rights under color of law. He was the nineth worker at the jail ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Officers intentionally kept the conditions in a local Alabama jail “as filthy as possible” to convince county commissioners to increase salaries and jail budget, a ...