An inmate at the Birmingham City Jail was found dead Wednesday morning.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Local activist Eric Hall is speaking publicly for the first time since his domestic assault arrest earlier this week, using the moment to draw attention to what he describes ...

A crooked prison officer conspired with three others, including her inmate boyfriend, to smuggle contraband into Birmingham's prison. Carla Moskot-Brettell, a custody officer at HMP Hewell in ...

Jefferson County has more jails per capita than any other county in the U.S. Twenty jails. TWENTY. That’s not a typo. To put this in perspective, New York City with nearly 15 times our population ...

American Baptist minister and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr (1929 - 1968, seated, centre-right) gives a press conference regarding an agreement reached on a 'limited desegregation plan' ...