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Mayor Adams said he interviewed several people for the post, but Lynelle Maginley-Liddie stood out for her “emotional intelligence”
The riot at Lee Correctional Institution left seven dead and more than a dozen injured; it was the deadliest prison riot in the U.S. in the last 25 years
The inmate was charged with attempted murder and has been transferred to a different corrections facility in Tucson
Correctional Officer Senior Yashea J. Chapel died Nov. 10 at a hospital following an asthma attack, an Alabama DOC spokesperson said
The remaining allegations in the lawsuit are made against specific corrections and police officers and include charges such as excessive force, battery, negligence, and failure to intervene
“This has got to be the most we’ve sworn in at once in at least 10 years,” Jail Commander Nate Uhlorn said
The December 1996 killings of check-cashing store owner Ira Epstein and Officer Charles Davis, working off-duty as a security guard, sparked an intense manhunt
The inmate told prosecutors he would have killed the former police officer had correctional officers not responded so quickly
Corrections Officer Chad Mumpower started his career with the Homewood Police Department in 1998; he leaves behind his wife and daughter, along with his mother and father
