Don Fletcher

Fountain officer arrested for trafficking in meth
News Staff Report Alabama Department of Corrections agents arrested a Fountain Correctional Facility correctional officer last week after a joint law enforcement investigation into drug trafficking. ADOC officials reported that 50-year-old Wiggins Washington, a 12-year veteran correctional officer who has been assigned to Fountain for the last several years, was arrested at a Bay Minette business on April 22. Washington, who has been an Alabama correctional officer since October 2007,…
Exhibit opens Thursday
News Staff Report “Making Alabama,” a traveling exhibit that showcases the history of the state and of Escambia County, will open this week in Atmore and will be on display here most of May at The Club on Highway 21. The exhibit, which will officially open with a 4 p.m. ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday, May 2. It will be open to the public from noon until 6 p.m., Monday through…
Inmate brawl
3 stabbed, 8 relocated after melee at Holman News Staff Report Alabama Department of Corrections officials confirmed Tuesday (April 30) that an April 26 inmate-on-inmate uprising at Holman Correctional Facility resulted in three prisoners being stabbed and eight others being relocated. According to a press release issued by ADOC’s Bob Horton, the incident occurred at approximately 10 p.m. when 11 inmates became embroiled in a dispute that quickly escalated into…