approximately 100 inmates involved in disturbance that saw prisoners take over dorm and set fire in hallway at state’s only execution facilityA prison in southern Alabama that serves as the state’s only execution facility was on lockdown Saturday,hours after a violent uprising left two prison officials injured.
Alabama department of corrections spokesman Bob Horton said the prison warden and a corrections officer were stabbed in the uprising at one of the dormitories at the William C Holman correctional facility in southern Alabama, just external of Atmore. Their injuries were not life-threatening.
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Source: theguardian.com