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Over 300 Officers Conduct Contraband Shakedown At Holman Prison
April 18, 2019
More than 300 law enforcement officers conducted a shakedown early Thursday morning at Holman Prison in Atmore.
The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) conducted a joint law enforcement operation in an effort to find and remove illegal contraband from Holman. ADOC officials launched the operation at 4:30 a.m. with support from more than 300 officials from local, county and state law enforcement agencies.
ADOC Deputy Commissioner of Operations, Charles Daniels, led the operation at the maximum security prison that houses an inmate population of 870. ADOC investigations and intelligence agents, correctional emergency response teams, and correctional K-9 drug units took part in the operation. Participating agencies included resources from Pardons and Paroles, AEMA, ADOT, Atmore, Bay Minette, Brewton Police Departments, and support from the Baldwin, Butler, Escambia and Monroe County Sheriff’s Departments.
“The ADOC is conducting these large scale joint operations in a move to eradicate contraband, identify deficiencies, and to take all necessary steps to reverse the trend of increased violence caused by illegal activity inside our prisons,” said Daniels. “We are going to do whatever is necessary to eliminate the contraband problem while sending a message to those who are responsible. Such criminal activity will not be tolerated and anyone who is caught bringing illegal items into our prisons will be charged and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
In February, ADOC conducted a similar joint operation at the St. Clair Correctional Facility in Springville. The successful operation seized more than 160 makeshift weapons, 48 cell phones, 110 grams of marijuana, and 276 grams of the synthetic drug, flakka.
Daniels said ADOC will continue to conduct the unannounced joint operations at other major correctional facilities in the future with assistance from other law enforcement agencies.
Corrections Commissioner Jeff Dunn instituted the joint operations by using all available ADOC and state resources to address the proliferation of drugs and other contraband entering state correctional institutions.
“We are committing all internal and external resources to address the contraband problem inside our prisons to ensure we provide the highest degree of safety and protection for our correctional staff and those who are in our custody. We owe them nothing less,” Dunn said.
Anyone with information on contraband in an Alabama prison can contact ADOC Investigations and Intelligence Division at 1-866-293-7799 with information that may lead to the arrest of anyone attempting to introduce illegal contraband into state prisons.
Pictured top and bottom: Some of the contraband discovered during a raid early Thursday morning at Holman Prison in Atmore. Photos for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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8 Responses to “Over 300 Officers Conduct Contraband Shakedown At Holman Prison”
Prison is the breeding ground for your worst nightmares. If you think they are being coddled them you have no idea what it’s like. The officers are brutal and are responsible for 99% me the contraband in the prisons bcs the visitors are thoroughly searched. There men and women locked up are not animals and deserve to do their time and be safe. But bcs they aren’t when they are released they become products me the system that has always been planted to the haves and not the have nots. Treat a man like an animal long enough and you’ll create that animal.
The guards are the ones bringing drugs and phones into the jail. Selling cell phones to inmates for $600 to $800.
They are also ignoring stabbings, fights, beatings, informing inmates when someone is getting released and orchestrating getting families to pay money on the final few days over and over to keep their loved one safe. The guards are even beating inmates to try to get them to fight back. I’d love to sit down with the governor.
Q person who is non- violent is likely to die in the prison system in Alabama.
If many of the people in prison were concerned about “rights”, they’d not be where there at. The only rights that mattered to them were there own.
“The harsh words of some will change should their kin ever enter a prison as an inmate.
DOJ just ruled two days ago that conditions in men’s prisons in Alabama violated their constitutional rights.”
My kin are no different from any other criminal, if they are convicted of a crime. Prisoners know right from wrong, kin or not, & their bad choice put them there. Quit feeling sorry for them. Many, many are repeat offenders, who just don’t get it, so quit feeling sorry for their refusal to live by the law, as most of us do. You should be feeling sorry for their innocent victims. I am tired of hearing about their rights, when it was themselves that put them there. I shed no tears for them not getting their constitutional rights.
I agree that any visitors or correctional officer/employees should be charged if found to be introducing or encouraging contraband in any prison.
However, inmates have many more rights than 3 hots and a cot. Keep in mind they are humans who made mistakes and got caught. Many of them will enter society again and many will be rehabilitated and part of your communities.
The harsh words of some will change should their kin ever enter a prison as an inmate.
DOJ just ruled two days ago that conditions in men’s prisons in Alabama violated their constitutional rights.
Good job working on the contraband, now let’s see that same effort applied to improving the conditions for these man.
Thank you to Monroe County Sheriff’s Department.. that is my home county!!!
If this is all they got from that shake down, they need to shake a lot harder!
There is no excuse for the proliferation of drugs and other contraband entering state correctional institutions. It is one thing that make shift weapons are made in the prison, but visitors should be vigorously scrutinized when entering the facility,
If they are caught they should be permanently banned from visits and prosecuted.
If there are corrupt DOC officers caught allowing contraband into the prison they should be fired and prosecuted. Ii is a max security prison! The only phone conversations prisoners should be having are the ones through two way glass.
Visitors should be put on notice, you smuggle in contraband you will never enter this facility again for visits. IT IS PRISON! The ones that end up there should pay a heavy price. There is a blind eye being turned on this problem otherwise it wouldn’t be the problem that it is. Prisoners have rights – 3 hots and a cot – sound harsh? IT’S PRISON! QUIT CODDLING PRISONERS! WE AS TAXPAYERS DESERVE BETTER.