Limestone Correctional Facility
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| Location | 28779 Nick Davis Road Harvest, Alabama |
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| Capacity | 2086 |
| Opened | October 1984 |
| Managed by | Alabama Department of Corrections |
| Director | Deborah Toney, Warden |
Limestone Correctional Facility is an Alabama Department of Corrections state prison for men located in Harvest, Limestone County, Alabama.[1] Opened in October 1984 and with a capacity of 2086 prisoners, Limestone is the largest prison in the Alabama state system. This institution is classified as a maximum security correctional facility.
Limestone and the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women were the two Alabama state prisons in which HIV positive inmates were segregated, a practice that Alabama and South Carolina claimed stopped the spread of the virus and lowered overall medical costs.[2][3] On December 21, 2012, U.S. District Court Justice Myron Herbert Thompson found that the segregation violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.[4]
The prison operates a farming and cattle operation on its surrounding 1,600 acres (650 ha) of land.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Alabama Department of Corrections". doc.state.al.us. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
- ^ Brown, Robbie (19 November 2012). "The New York Times". nytimes.com. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
- ^ Benjamin Fleury-Steiner with Carla Crowder: Dying inside. The HIV/AIDS ward at Limestone prison. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2008. ISBN 9780472114290
- ^ "Judge Orders Alabama to Stop Segregation of HIV Prisoners in Alabama | American Civil Liberties Union". aclu.org. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
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