A former Alabama correctional officer has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for using excessive force on an inmate and lying on a report in an attempt to cover it up, federal prosecutors said.
An Alabama inmate serving life imprisonment after being convicted of murder in 1993 died in an assault at Donaldson prison in Bessemer.
An Alabama inmate serving life in prison for a 1985 double murder has died two days after he was found injured in his cell.
Authorities say a state prison inmate from Montgomery has been stabbed to death at a correctional facility outside Birmingham.
