Beatings, Bonfires, Floods (Bullock Prison, Alabama)

Alabama Prison in the Cold (Part Five)

(Above: Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner John Hamm)

From late February through March, I continue interviewing prisoners in Bullock Prison in Union Springs, Alabama, about the cold, the heating and hot water systems not working, fires started, riots contemplated, and other topics.

For those who missed the previous articles in this series: Prisoners have reported on the topics mentioned above throughout the past four articles on Bullock Prison. In Part Two, one source in late February even reported that prisoners were contemplating beating up guards and taking their winter clothing. In Part Four, I interviewed a prisoner, now in Bullock, who participated in the 2016 riot in Holman Prison in Atmore, in which an officer and the warden were stabbed and violence continued in the prison for a couple of days.