not to be confused with Perry Correctional Institution, Pelzer, South Carolina
Prison Name: | Perry County Correctional Facility |
Location: | 4805 Hwy 80 East, Uniontown, Alabama |
Capacity: | 738 |
Managed By: | LCS Corrections Services |
Director: | James Mullins |
Perry County Correctional Facility is a privately owned and privately operated prison facility about 4miles east of Uniontown in Perry County, Alabama, and operated by LCS Corrections Services.[1]
Despite its name the prison has never been operated by, or housed prisoners of, Perry County. It opened in April 2006. A contract with the Vermont Department of Corrections for the housing of 80 offenders ended in April 2009 amid allegations of understaffing and inmates being injured. It was Vermont's first private-prison contract.[2]
On May 25, 2009, prisoners Ashton Mink and Joshua Southwick escaped and were re-captured after a 14-hour shootout in Gladstone, North Dakota.[3] Shortly thereafter Alabama removed its 250 prisoners from the facility, citing money concerns, although state Prison Commissioner Richard Allen noted that LCS had taken eleven and a half hours to notify officials of the Memorial Day escape.[4]
The facility continues to house federal inmates of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the United States Marshals Service.[1] only about 30 federal prisoners were held in Perry even though the Alabama state system was running at an average 192% capacity.[5]