In 1928 the Moffett Prison Farm opened. It later received the name "Atmore Prison Farm." The facility burned down in 1949. In 1955 it was rebuilt and named for a prison guard who was killed at work. In 1975 John Boone, the director of the
National Campaign Against Prisons and a former prison commissioner in
Massachusetts, said that Fountain and the
Draper Correctional Facility had situations where "at any time the prisoners want to, they could take complete charge by force." On Friday, August 29, 1975, two U.S. district court federal judges,
William Brevard Hand and
Frank M. Johnson Jr., prohibited Alabama authorities from sending any more prisoners to Fountain, Draper,
Holman Correctional Facility, and the Medical and Diagnostic Center, due to overcrowding; the four prisons, designed to hold 2,212 prisoners, were holding about 3,800. In 1993, prisoners who did not want to work in the fields were shackled during work times. The prisoners filed lawsuits against this process. A fire damaged the Davis facility on March 30, 1995. By October 8, 1995, the Davis facility had been refurbished. ==References==