Tag: DONALDSON CORRECTIONAL FACILITY

ADOC's Hamm refuses to answer questions about potential August hostage situation, prisoner with gun: 'It wasn’t pretty, but we’re getting to the bottom of it'

MONTGOMERY - Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner John Hamm refused to go into detail about an incident at Donaldson Correctional Facility in August, which involved a prisoner with a gun who may have taken guards hostage.

Report: Donaldson prisoner with gun last month may have taken guards hostage, despite ADOC statement

A new report sheds light on what the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) called a “security incident” last month, which involved a prisoner with a gun who may have taken guards hostage.

VIDEO: Alabama inmate in guard uniform goes live on social media with pistol, calls prison ‘modern-day slavery’; Arrested for ‘security incident’

A prisoner in Bessemer’s Donaldson Correctional Facility for murder appeared on Facebook Live videos on Sunday morning wearing a correctional officer’s vest, holding a handgun and ranting about prison conditions.