MONTGOMERY, Ala. - One prison inmate was stabbed to death by another over the weekend, state officials said Monday in Alabama, where high rates of prison violence have recently been criticized by the U.S. Justice Department. Alabama Department of Corrections spokesman Bob Horton said in a news release that 29-year-old Jeremy Reshad Bailey was fatally wounded Saturday at Fountain Correctional Facility in Atmore, which is near the Florida line. Correctional officers found Bailey inside a prison housing area with a stab wound. Fellow inmate Jarvis Terrell Taylor, 31, was being charged with murder, prison officials said. Bailey was serving a seven-year sentence on a 2017 drug distribution conviction in Jefferson County.

Source: thestar June 17, 2019 18:36 UTC