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Prison Photo County Location Opened Security class Capacity Notes Bibb Correctional Facility: Bibb: Brent: 1997: Medium: 1824: Bullock Correctional Facility: Bullock
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 79 people (78 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.
Known as the "angel of the prisons", Tutwiler pushed for many reforms of the Alabama penal system. In a letter sent from Julia Tutwiler in Dothan, Alabama to Frank S. White in Birmingham, Alabama, Tutwiler pushed for key issues such as the end to convict leasing, the re-establishment of night school education, and the separation of minor offenders and hardened criminals. [3]
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 ...
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Aug. 29—The Clay County Sheriff's office has made seven arrests in connection with a lengthy narcotics investigation, Sheriff Brison Swearingen said Tuesday. On Tuesday, while serving a search ...
The facility was originally built to house 581 inmates. Holman held as many as one thousand prisoners. [4] It has 632 general population beds, 200 single cells, and 170 death row cells, for a capacity of 1002 maximum through minimum-custody inmates, including a large contingent of life without parole inmates.
Suspended Clay County Sheriff Jeffrey Lyde reached a plea bargain Tuesday for his sentences for oppression and tampering. He will serve a jail sentence.