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  2. Holman Correctional Facility - Wikipedia

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    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, 9 miles (14 km) north of Atmore in southern Alabama. [2] The facility was originally built to house 581 inmates. Holman held as many as one thousand prisoners. [3]

  3. Lynching of Horace Maples - Wikipedia

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    Huntsville, Alabama. Date. September 7, 1904. Horace Maples was an African-American man who was lynched by a mob of approximately 2,000 people in Huntsville, Alabama, on September 7, 1904. [1] Maples had been accused of murder and was being held in the county jail when it was set on fire by the crowd. He jumped from a second story window in the ...

  4. List of Alabama state prisons - Wikipedia

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    Bullock Work Release Center. Camden Work Release Center. Childersburg Boot & Work Camp. Childersburg Work Release Center. Davis Correctional Facility. Decatur Work Release Center (RENAMED - North Alabama Work Release Center) Elba Work Release Center. Farquhar Cattle Ranch. Frank Lee Youth Center.

  5. Federal Correctional Institution, Talladega - Wikipedia

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    Population. 1,049 (277 in prison camp) Managed by. Federal Bureau of Prisons. The Federal Correctional Institution (FCI Talladega) is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Alabama. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice.

  6. Torture of slaves in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A runaway slave ad published in Huntsville, Alabama in 1849 described 30-year-old Ben of Martin County, North Carolina as having "no particular marks perceptible, only the little toe of each foot is off." [34] A black man arrested in Alabama in 1839 had "a small piece out of each of his ears." [35]

  7. List of people executed in Alabama - Wikipedia

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    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 75 people (74 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.

  8. Kilby Correctional Facility - Wikipedia

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    Alabama Department of Corrections. Kilby Correctional Facility is an Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) prison for the state of Alabama, located in Mt. Meigs, an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Alabama, with a capacity to house over 1,400 inmates. [1] A section of the city of Montgomery covers a portion of the prison facility.

  9. Farquhar Cattle Ranch - Wikipedia

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    The Black Warrior River and Alabama Highway 69 South bounded the property, which was about 10 miles (16 km) south of Greensboro, and 50 miles (80 km) south of Tuscaloosa. The prison had baseball fields, duck ponds, and picnic pavilions. The prison housed the system's second largest cattle operation.