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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A 36-year-old suspect was arrested Tuesday for his alleged committing an attempted murder in Birmingham over the weekend.

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' ...