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Joshua Hamer, 41, died on November 23 after he was assaulted and sustained serious injuries at Bibb Correctional Facility in Brent, Alabama, on November 6.
Joshua Hamer was hospitalized “for life-threatening injuries sustained in an inmate assault” and was pronounced dead at the hospital.
At the time of his death, Mr. Hamer had served 20 months of a 115-month sentence for theft of property. He would have been eligible for parole in June 2026.
Mr. Hamer is at least the 12th person known to have been killed in an Alabama prison this year, and the third in the past six weeks.
Overcrowding, staffing shortages, and leadership failures continue to fuel the crisis in Alabama’s deadly prisons even after federal prosecutors sued the state over its unconstitutional treatment of incarcerated people.
In 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice notified Alabama officials that ADOC “routinely violates the constitutional rights of prisoners” by failing to protect them from rampant violence and sexual abuse and that the department’s management practices have “greatly contributed to the high level of violence” in the state’s prisons.
The homicide rate in Alabama prisons for each of the past five years has reached more than 60 per 100,000 incarcerated people – more than five times the most recently reported national rate.
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