The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote some of his most enduring words behind bars. From a Birmingham, Alabama, jail cell in 1963, on smuggled bits of paper, he wrote a legendary essay that still lands ...

A 47-year-old inmate died at the Birmingham City Jail. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office identified the woman as Tyeshia ...

In my Comp 2 classes we read Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," which every American should read, although few do. That experience is mostly limited to Arkansas schools, which ...

The prison bench where Martin Luther King Jr. penned one of his best-known letters will be displayed at the Museum of the American Revolution later this year. The metal seat from which the civil ...

The Birmingham City Jail is a warehouse for humans where inhumane conditions and neglect from staff caused a woman’s unnecessary death, according to a claim in a federal lawsuit. Attorneys ...

A 47-year-old woman was found unresponsive inside the Birmingham City Jail on Tuesday morning, according to the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office.The coroner id ...

Writing for the Aspen Institute’s Aspen Idea blog, Dr. Eric L. Motley, a vice president at the institute, explains the power of “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” which he read for the first time with his ...

On April 16, 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. was imprisoned in Birmingham, Alabama, after leading peaceful demonstrations against racial segregation. As a flurry of correspondence arrived to the jail ...

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

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' ...

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 ...