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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. As of March 2024, the prison was 15% over capacity at 2,398 inmates.
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]
Limestone has garnered media attention in the past several years for various controversies, including documented abuse and mistreatment of individuals in their custody, [5] dilapidated and unsafe facilities, [6] staff shortages, and corruption [7] among leadership. Among these also include accusations of organ harvesting, [8] [9] [10] as families of people who have died while incarcerated have discovered their loved ones missing various organs. [11]
