Fountain Correctional Facility is an
Alabama Department of Corrections
The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) is the agency responsible for incarceration of convicted felons in the state of Alabama in the United States. It is headquartered in the Alabama Criminal Justice Center in Montgomery.
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prison located in
Atmore,
Alabama
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. The facility is located along
Alabama Highway 21, about north of the Atmore city center.
[Fountain / JO Davis Correctional Facility]
." Alabama Department of Corrections
The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) is the agency responsible for incarceration of convicted felons in the state of Alabama in the United States. It is headquartered in the Alabama Criminal Justice Center in Montgomery.
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. Retrieved on July 4, 2011.
The prison may hold up to 855 medium-custody male prisoners. The prison has agricultural operations, cattle operations, and vegetable gardens. Fountain and
Coastal Alabama Community College
Coastal Alabama Community College (also known as Coastal Alabama Community College – South) is a public community college with nine campuses in southern Alabama: Bay Minette, Fairhope, Gulf Shores, Atmore, Brewton, Gilbertown, Jackson, Mon ...
(formerly
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. He represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives as a ...
Community College) offer vocational programs to the prisoners. The annual budget is $8,132,000.
J. O. Davis Correctional Facility, an extension of Fountain, is a 400-prisoner unit. The unit was named after a previous Fountain warden.
[Fountain Correctional Facility]
" Alabama Department of Corrections
The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) is the agency responsible for incarceration of convicted felons in the state of Alabama in the United States. It is headquartered in the Alabama Criminal Justice Center in Montgomery.
Alabama has rela ...
. August 11, 2002. Retrieved on July 4, 2011.
History
In 1928 the Moffett Prison Farm opened. It later received the name "Atmore Prison Farm." The facility burned down in 1949. In 1955 it was rebuilt and named for a prison guard who was killed at work.
Davis opened in 1973.
In periods of the 1970s the Fountain facility, built for 632 prisoners, instead housed over 1,000. In 1975 John Boone, the director of the
National Campaign Against Prisons and a former prison commissioner in
, said that Fountain and the
Draper Correctional Facility
Draper Correctional Facility was an Alabama Department of Corrections state prison for men located in Elmore, Elmore County, Alabama. The prison first opened in 1939 with a capacity of 600 beds, replacing the former Speigner Reformatory. Speign ...
had situations where "at any time the prisoners want to, they could take complete charge by force." On Friday, August 29, 1975, two U.S. district court federal judges,
William Brevard Hand
William Brevard Hand (January 18, 1924 – September 6, 2008) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.
Early life and education
Born in Mobile, Alabama, where his father, Char ...
and
Frank M. Johnson Jr., prohibited Alabama authorities from sending any more prisoners to Fountain, Draper,
Holman Correctional Facility
William C. Holman Correctional Facility is an Alabama Department of Corrections prison located in Atmore, Alabama. The facility is along Alabama State Highway 21, north of Atmore in southern Alabama.
The facility was originally built to house ...
, and the Medical and Diagnostic Center, due to overcrowding; the four prisons, designed to hold 2,212 prisoners, were holding about 3,800.
In 1993, prisoners who did not want to work in the fields were shackled during work times. The prisoners filed lawsuits against this process.
A fire damaged the Davis facility on March 30, 1995. By October 8, 1995, the Davis facility had been refurbished.
The city of Atmore annexed the land in the prison in 2008. The Alabama DOC asked for the city to annex the land.
References
External links
Fountain / JO Davis Correctional Facility
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