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Jail Name:

St. Clair Correctional Facility

Jail Type:

State Prison

State:

Alabama

County:

SAINT CLAIR

City:

SPRINGVILLE

Source:

Wikipedia

Description:

St. Clair Correctional Facility is an Alabama state men's prison located in Springville, St. Clair County, Alabama. The prison was originally built in 1983,[1] and has an operating capacity of 1,514 inmates.[2] The current warden is Carter Davenport.[1] The facility was built in 1983. In April 1985 it was site of a major riot. Five employees were beaten and 22 others including the warden and his deputy were held hostage by inmates armed with guns. The prisoners complained of "barbaric conditions."[3] [4] Within a two and a half year period ending September 2014, six inmates had been killed in the facility.[5] The Alabama non-profit Equal Justice Initiative had already called for a change in leadership three months prior, after inmate Jodey Waldrop was killed in the early morning hours of June 3, [6] for what they described as a pattern of serious neglect and violence, including an incident when the then-warden punched a handcuffed prisoner. As of June 2014 the prison was at 130 percent capacity.[7] Press reports indicate that the facility is in a lawless condition. One expert cited "a total breakdown of the necessary basic structures that are required to operate a prison safely."[8] In March 2016 a correctional officer was wounded by a knife, trying to break up a fight.[9] On May 13, 2016, another inmate was found dead of unknown causes.[10] In June 2016 the Equal Justice Initiative filed a motion in federal court arguing that "severe overcrowding, understaffing and dangerous conditions violate the prisoners' constitutional rights," and that the prison's severe understaffing poses a safety risk to guards and correctional officers. The facility runs at 59.5% of full staffing levels, giving it a staff-to-inmate ratio among the highest in U.S. prisons. [11] In the fiscal year ending in September 2016, there were 249 reported assaults at St. Clair

Opened:

1983

Security Class:

Mixed, including Maximum

Same As:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Clair_Correctional_Facility

Source URL:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Clair_Correctional_Facility

Photo URL:

https://www.doc.state.al.us/images/facilities/21.jpg

Website URL:

https://www.doc.state.al.us/facility.aspx?loc=21