ATMORE, Alabama — A Bay Minette man has been detained after a corrections officer was stabbed at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore on Thursday. According to a report …
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ATMORE, Alabama — A Bay Minette man has been detained after a corrections officer was stabbed at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore on Thursday.
According to a report from the Alabama Department of Corrections, prison officials reported that an inmate assaulted and stabbed a corrections officer at around 12:35 p.m. in the facility’s dining hall during the noon meal.
According to the report, the officer was stabbed in retaliation for being denied an extra trey of food. Correctional officers responded to the incident and were able to constrain the inmate and give aid to the injured officer.
The officer was airlifted to an off-site hospital. The officer’s condition is reported as critical.
Cleveland Cunningham was detained as a suspect in the stabbing. Cunningham is serving a 20-year sentence on a 2013 first-degree robbery conviction in Baldwin County. The inmate was segregated from general population without further incident.
Onlooker co-editor John Underwood contributed to this report.