If a woman is pregnant at the time she is sentenced to incarceration, the bill mandates that the court include a term of ...

Alabama bill allows pregnant women to defer incarceration and provide postpartum care for 12 weeks, with probation until that ...

Alabama lawmakers are seeking to borrow additional money for prison construction to ensure the state can build a second 4,000-bed prison.

The medications “help to bridge that gap between 'I want to get clean' and getting clean," a prisons official said.

It goes to the House, which passed a similar bill last year, the What is a Woman Act by Rep. Susan DuBose, R-Hoover.