[1] The 8,200-acre (3,300 ha) facility is located along Alabama Highway 21, about 7 miles (11 km) north of the Atmore city center.

[2] J. O. Davis Correctional Facility, an extension of Fountain, is a 400-prisoner unit.

[3] In periods of the 1970s the Fountain facility, built for 632 prisoners, instead housed over 1,000.

"[5] On Friday, August 29, 1975, two U.S. district court federal judges, William Brevard Hand and Frank M. Johnson Jr., prohibited Alabama authorities from sending any more prisoners to Fountain, Draper, Holman Correctional Facility, and the Medical and Diagnostic Center, due to overcrowding; the four prisons, designed to hold 2,212 prisoners, were holding about 3,800.

The Alabama DOC asked for the city to annex the land.