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Holman Correctional Facility
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Holman Correctional Facility is a state prison located in Escambia County, Alabama. Rated capacity: 1,002. Reported population: 700. Security level: Close. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
William C. Holman Correctional Facility is an Alabama Department of Corrections prison located in Atmore, Alabama, United States. The facility is along Alabama State Highway 21. The facility was originally built to house 581 inmates. Holman held as many as one thousand prisoners. It has 632 general population beds, 200 single cells, and 170 death row cells, for a capacity of 1002 maximum through minimum-custody inmates, including a large contingent of life without parole inmates.
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Capacity
1,002
Current population
700
Occupancy
70%
Year opened
1969
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1969
Region
Alabama
Security level
Close
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Notable inmates
- Herbert Richardson1946–1989 · soldier
- Herbert Richardson1946–1989 · soldier
Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
0/100
Low concern0/100
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
This facility scores 0. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 2 points below national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersOccupancythis: 70% · peers avg: 93% (25%)
Capacity (beds)this: 1002 · peers avg: 547 (+83%)
Data completeness
74%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries
- HIFLD dataset query
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q5883220)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Holman Correctional Facility. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/holman-correctional-facility
Chicago
"Holman Correctional Facility." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/holman-correctional-facility.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-holman-correctional-facilit,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Holman Correctional Facility},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/holman-correctional-facility},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}