A riot at a prison in southern Alabama has correction officers working to regain control of the facility.

The thousand-bed Holman Correctional Facility, about 50 miles north of Mobile, is the only prison in Alabama that carries out executions.

Alabama Public Radio’s Pat Duggins tells our Newscast unit that prisoners are setting fires and roaming the facility, and that the local sheriff’s department says “it isn’t sure what sparked the riot at the prison near the city of Atmore.”

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Source: Texas Public Radio