Tag: VENTRESS CORRECTIONAL FACILITY

Cocaine, marijuana, cell phones confiscated, two arrested in contraband arrest at Ventress prison

Two individuals were arrested in Barbour County and accused of trying to introduce drugs and cell phones into Ventress Correctional facility after being apprehended by law enforcement.

Ventress Correctional guard facing life sentence after being caught with fentanyl trafficking, other contraband charges  

An Alabama Department of Corrections guard faces a life sentence after she was arrested on Monday on several charges related to attempting to bring contraband into Ventress Correctional Facility in Clayton.

ADOC takes heat for dead inmates remains returned to families with missing hearts, other organs

It is not as if we needed any more proof to show that there is a complete lack of institutional control within Alabama's prisons by the Department of Corrections (ADOC).

'I'm not a monster': Alabama man who killed parents talks to 1819 News from behind bars

Michael Travis Head, now 36, was only 16 years old when he shot and killed his father and stepmother in their Rock Stand home in east Alabama in August 2002. It was the most gruesome death scene the sheriff at the time said he ever saw in his 35-year career in law enforcement. However, for Head, he said it was the ending of an even more tragic life he said he had been living for years.