--- title: 2 Officials Stabbed in Unrest at Alabama Prison description: Both injuries were non-life-threatening canonical: https://time.com/4256661/alabama-prison-lockdown-riot-officials-stabbed/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-12T19:33:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T15:51:16.358Z article:section: U.S. og:title: 2 Officials Stabbed in Unrest at Alabama Prison og:description: Both injuries were non-life-threatening og:url: https://time.com/4256661/alabama-prison-lockdown-riot-officials-stabbed/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21b7512f89404f69/69888ac3428a9e1a9dcd1c6b/alabama-prison-riot.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Alabama Prison Riot og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 2 Officials Stabbed in Unrest at Alabama Prison twitter:description: Both injuries were non-life-threatening twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21b7512f89404f69/69888ac3428a9e1a9dcd1c6b/alabama-prison-riot.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 2 Officials Stabbed as Unrest at Alabama Prison Leads to Lockdown by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Mar 12, 2016 7:33 PM CUT  This still image taken from video shot by an inmate from the Holman Correctional Facility shows a prison riot on north of Atmore, Ala., onMarch 11, 2016. This still image taken from video shot by an inmate from the Holman Correctional Facility shows a prison riot on north of Atmore, Ala., onMarch 11, 2016.AP by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Mar 12, 2016 7:33 PM CUT The only prison in Alabama that carries out executions was on lockdown Saturday after a violent inmate disturbance — captured on contraband cellphone cameras and posted to social media — left two prison officials injured. A prison warden and a corrections officer were stabbed Friday night at Holman Correctional Facility when the officer responded to a fight in a dormitory and tried to detain one of the inmates involved, the Alabama Department of Corrections said in a statement. A warden, identified as Carter Davenport, was also stabbed when he and other officers responded to the commotion, the statement said. Both the officer. . . [_Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/two-officials-stabbed-after-unrest-alabama-prison-leads-lockdown-n537211?cid=par-time%5F20160312 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4256661/alabama-prison-lockdown-riot-officials-stabbed/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4256661/alabama-prison-lockdown-riot-officials-stabbed/"},"headline":"2 Officials Stabbed as Unrest at Alabama Prison Leads to Lockdown","datePublished":"2016-03-12T19:33:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:51:16.358Z","description":"Both injuries were non-life-threatening","url":"https://time.com/4256661/alabama-prison-lockdown-riot-officials-stabbed/","keywords":["Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21b7512f89404f69/69888ac3428a9e1a9dcd1c6b/alabama-prison-riot.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21b7512f89404f69/69888ac3428a9e1a9dcd1c6b/alabama-prison-riot.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Alabama Prison Riot","caption":"Alabama Prison Riot","creditText":"AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4256661/alabama-prison-lockdown-riot-officials-stabbed/","name":"2 Officials Stabbed as Unrest at Alabama Prison Leads to Lockdown"}}]}] ```