Alexander Correctional Institution

[1] The facility opened in 2004 as one of three 1000-bed Close Custody prisons built in the state.

[3] In August 2008, a prisoner named Timothy Helms claimed that, while in solitary confinement, a beating by corrections officers had left him a brain-damaged quadriplegic.

[4] An internal investigation showed various violations of the prison's own standards (Helms had been in restrictive housing for 571 consecutive days, officers had tethered him with a nylon strap similar to a leash, medical attention was delayed until the next day, etc.).

[7] One of these was on March 12, when prisoner Michael Kerr died of dehydration while being transported for medical attention.

[11] On June 25, 2016, officers found inmate Justin Cauble unresponsive in his cell, dead of an apparent drug overdose.