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Alabama prisoners in both the county jails and state penitentiaries have been required to work at farming and cotton plantations since the 1840s. By the 1878, convict labor rented from the state was used most commonly in the coal mining industry, often as strike breakers. [ 6 ]
Prison Photo County Location Opened Security class Capacity Notes Bibb Correctional Facility: Bibb: Brent: 1997: Medium: 1824: Bullock Correctional Facility: Bullock
The prison is on a 650-acre (260 ha) plot of land along Alabama State Route 14, in southwest unincorporated Pickens County. The prison is about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north of Aliceville, [1] and between Aliceville and Pickensville. The local area is served by the Aliceville post office.
The Hall County Jail, on Bradford St. in Gainesville, Georgia, also known as the Old Hall County Jail, is an Art Deco-style building built in 1934–1935. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
A runaway former corrections officer shot herself as she and an escaped inmate were being chased by cops after they disappeared together.
Daniel Lee Siebert – Alabama Institutional Serial #00Z475 [29] – Died from cancer while in custody in 2008, he was known for challenging protocol. [30] Thomas Warren Whisenhant – Serial killer who was convicted of murder in 1977 – Executed on May 27, 2010; at the time of his execution he was Alabama's longest serving death row inmate. [31]
A former corrections officer at an Alabama 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 ...
He has been charged with three counts of misdemeanor sexual battery in connection with assaults on female inmates at the jail.