Limestone 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. Alabama has rela ...

state prison for men located in

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Limestone County, Alabama Limestone County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census, the county's population was 103,570. Its county seat is Athens. The county is named after Limestone Creek. Limestone County is included in the Huntsville, AL Metro ...

. Opened in October 1984 and with a capacity of 2086 prisoners, Limestone is the largest prison in the Alabama state system. This institution is classified as a maximum security correctional facility. Limestone and the

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inmates were segregated, a practice that Alabama and South Carolina claimed stopped the spread of the virus and lowered overall medical costs.Benjamin Fleury-Steiner with Carla Crowder: ''Dying inside. The HIV/AIDS ward at Limestone prison''. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2008. On December 21, 2012, U.S. District Court Justice

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found that the segregation violated the

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. The prison operates a farming and cattle operation on its surrounding of land.

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