Mental Illness

Two corrections officers have agreed to plead guilty to federal charges related to the death of a mentally ill man who died of hypothermia in jail. Tony Mitchell was arrested in 2023. He was kept naked in a concrete cell at the Walker County Jail with no bedding or running water for two weeks.

A man who admitted to killing five people in 2016 has been executed by lethal injection in Alabama. Derrick Dearman was pronounced dead Thursday at Holman prison in southern Alabama.

Former corrections officer Joshua Conner Jones has pleaded guilty to criminal charges for his role in the death of a mentally ill incarcerated man in Alabama. The plea deal says Tony Mitchell died of hypothermia and sepsis after being incarcerated at Walker County Jail in 2023.

A former corrections officer at the Walker County jail has agreed to plead guilty to a criminal charge in the death of a mentally ill man who died of hypothermia after being held naked in a concrete cell for two weeks.

Mental health care in correctional facilities was the subject of a talk in Tuscaloosa yesterday.Dr. Marisa Giggie, the chief psychiatrist for the…

Mentally ill inmates held in Alabama’s prisons may soon be receiving better care thanks to a federal court.Late last week, U.S. District Judge Myron…

The family of a soldier killed in a 2010 Fort Rucker helicopter accident has reached a multi-million dollar settlement with two companies.The Dothan Eagle…

The metro area of Huntsville led Alabama's population growth last year according to census data from July 2014 to July 2015.The Rocket City added more…