Perry County Correctional Facility
Perry County Correctional Facility is a privately owned and privately operated prison facility about four miles (6.4 km) east of Uniontown in Perry County, Alabama, and operated by LCS Corrections Services.[1]
- not to be confused with Perry Correctional Institution, Pelzer, South Carolina
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| Location | 4805 Hwy 80 East, Uniontown, Alabama |
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| Capacity | 738 |
| Managed by | LCS Corrections Services |
| Director | James Mullins |
Despite its name the prison has never been operated by, or housed prisoners of, Perry County. It opened in April 2006. A contract with the Vermont Department of Corrections for the housing of 80 offenders ended in April 2009 amid allegations of understaffing and inmates being injured. It was Vermont's first private-prison contract.[2]
On May 25, 2009, prisoners Ashton Mink and Joshua Southwick escaped and were re-captured after a 14-hour shootout in Gladstone, North Dakota.[3] Shortly thereafter Alabama removed its 250 prisoners from the facility, citing money concerns, although state Prison Commissioner Richard Allen noted that LCS had taken eleven and a half hours to notify officials of the Memorial Day escape.[4]
The facility continues to house federal inmates of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the United States Marshals Service.[1] As of November 2013 only about 30 federal prisoners were held in Perry even though the Alabama state system was running at an average 192% capacity.[5]
References
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-09-01. Retrieved 2014-02-13.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- Picard, Ken. "Vermont Pulls Its Inmates from Cut-Rate Alabama Prison". Seven Days.
- "Article 404 - Tuscaloosa News - Tuscaloosa, AL". Tuscaloosa News.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-02-13. Retrieved 2014-02-13.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)