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It operates the nation's most crowded prison system. In 2015 it housed more than 24,000 inmates in a system designed for 13,318. [3] In 2015 it settled a class-action suit over physical and sexual violence against inmates at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka. [4] The department also spends the least of any state on a per-prisoner ...
William C. Holman Correctional Facility is an Alabama Department of Corrections prison located in Atmore, Alabama. [1] The facility is along Alabama State Highway 21. [2] [3] The facility was originally built to house 581 inmates. Holman held as many as one thousand prisoners. [4]
Police in Alabama are searching for two escaped inmates who broke loose from a rural jail Saturday morning. Three inmates reportedly overpowered a jailer after he entered their cell to check on ...
Alabama is not the only state to have used judicial override in the past. The state modelled its policy after Florida’s in the 1970s. It was originally envisioned as a way to bar juries from ...
Fountain Correctional Facility is an Alabama Department of Corrections prison located in Atmore, Alabama. [1] The 8,200-acre (3,300 ha) facility is located along Alabama Highway 21, about 7 miles (11 km) north of the Atmore city center. [2] The prison may hold up to 855 medium-custody male prisoners.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- A prisoner's rights group is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to look into allegations that guards at an Alabama women's prison are sexually abusing the inmates ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Alabama since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. All of the 78 people (77 men and 1 woman) have been executed at the Holman Correctional Facility, near Atmore, Alabama. All executions between December 2002 and 2023 were conducted by lethal injection.
Two inmates who passed away while in Alabama prisons allegedly had their bodies returned to their families with missing hearts or other organs, a lawsuit claims.. Brandon Clay Dotson, 43, died in ...