ATMORE, Ala. (AP) - The Alabama Department of Corrections says two inmates at an Atmore correctional facility have been wounded in a fight.
The Montgomery Advertiser reports the two inmates were wounded Saturday and have since been released from a hospital. This fight comes just after a report by the Montgomery-based nonprofit organization Equal Justice Initiative said Alabama prisons are the nation’s most lethal.
Just this month, one inmate was stabbed to death and another was critically injured in a separate stabbing during a fight that injured two others. Department of Corrections reports and releases say 18 inmates have been killed in state prisons since October 2016.
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Department of Corrections spokesman Bob Horton has said he’s unsure how the nonprofit’s report was produced, but says the prison homicide rate is a top concern.
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Information from: Montgomery Advertiser, http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com
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