Search William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility Records Online
Jail Name:
William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility
Jail Type:
State Prison
State:
Alabama
County:
JEFFERSON
City:
BESSEMER
Source:
Wikipedia
Description:
The prison opened as the West Jefferson Correctional Facility in 1982.[1] On January 12, 1990, corrections officer William E. Donaldson was stabbed and killed by an inmate. The prison was later renamed in honor of officer Donaldson.[citation needed] Originally the prison had a capacity for 700 inmates in dormitory housing and 16 inmates in individual prison cells; the capacity increased as expansions opened.[1] In 1996, according to Joe Hopper, the commissioner of the Alabama Department of Corrections, the system's prison guard shortage was the most acute at Donaldson during that year. In that year the prison housed around 1,400 prisoners, with 207 prison guards watching them.[2] Donaldson was the main setting of the documentary film The Dhamma Brothers, which chronicles the establishment of a Vipassana meditation program for prisoners
Opened:
1982
Security Class:
Maximum
Website URL:
Address:
100 WARRIOR LANE
Zip Code:
35023
Location:
Bessemer, Alabama
Email:
webmaster@doc.alabama.gov
Phone 1:
205-436-3681
Imate Gender:
Male Offenders
Capacity:
1492
Judicial District:
Bessemer, Alabama
Inmate Mail 1:
Inmate Name, ID Number Dorm, Bed Number Donaldson Correctional Facility 100 Warrior Lane Bessemer, AL 35023-7299
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Notable Inmates:
Walter Leroy Moody Jr - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Moody
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