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Alabama Corrections Officer’s Condition Improving After Holman Stabbing
September 4, 2016
A corrections officer is improving after being stabbed last week a at Holman Prison in Atmore.
The officer was listed in critical condition after the stabbing last Thursday, but his condition was improved to serious condition at last report by the Alabama Department of Corrections. The officer’s name has not yet been released.
The stabbing happened at 12:35 p.m. in the facility’s dining hall during the noon meal.
Prison officials report the inmate assaulted and stabbed the officer in retaliation for being denied an extra tray of food. Correctional officers responded to the incident and were able to restrain the inmate and give aid to the injured officer. The officer was airlifted in critical condition to an area hospital.
Inmate Cleveland Cunningham was detained as a suspect in the stabbing. Cunningham is serving a 20-year sentence on a 2013 first-degree robbery conviction from Baldwin County. Cunningham was segregated from general population without further incident.
No other inmates were involved in the stabbing. The facility was placed on lockdown while ADOC officials investigate the incident.
The ADOC is not releasing the name of the officer pending the ongoing investigation.
Pictured top: NorthEscambia.com file photo, click to enlarge.
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3 Responses to “Alabama Corrections Officer’s Condition Improving After Holman Stabbing”
The conditions of U.S. prisons are awful..I have a personal account as a past employee of an Alabama facility of how understaffed, overcrowed, and filthy prisons are. Officials want to say the average ratio for officer to inmate is 10 to 1, this is not true! It’s sad to say but it’s going to be more violence against officers due to the inhumane treatment of inmates, ridiculous amounts of drugs that make it into the prisons, just to name a few! Governors/Commissioners/Administration must stop sitting idly by making top figure salaries and the prison system is in ruin. A new prison reform needs to be implemented soon!
They see it but are willing to risk peoples lives to save a buck.All prisons are a big powder keg the public is also as willing to turn a blind eye to things that don’t immediately affect them but people are leaving in droves they cant hire fast enough to replace them so they just hire anything because most people are not willing to risk their lives for 14 dollars an hour. Soon the blind eye will have to look when things explode.
I wonder if the powers that be are paying attention to what’s happening in the prison system? A blind man could see what’s happening but I’m not sure about the politicians.