Location Type:	Jail/Prison
	State:	AL
	County:	Jefferson
	Street Address:	100 Warrior Lane
	City:	Bessemer
	Zip Code:	35023
	Phone:	205-436-3681
	Email:	Constituent.Services@doc.alabama.gov
	Website URL:	http://www.doc.state.al.us/facility?loc=2
	Inmate Search:	http://www.doc.state.al.us/InmateSearch
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	About/Additional Info:	William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility opened in October 1982 as the West Jefferson Correctional Facility. Subsequently, Donaldson expanded to include a 300-inmate segregation unit which is the largest unit in the State of Alabama. Donaldson specializes in controlling repeat and/or multiple violent offenders with lengthy sentences that are behaviorally difficult to manage, and several hundred inmates sentenced to life without parole. Donaldson offers vocational, educational, and rehabilitative programs services to eligible inmates. In addition, Donaldson has a death row unit with a capacity for 24 inmates that need to be incarcerated in the Birmingham judicial area. Donaldson is classified as a close custody facility. Inmate Gender: Male, Inmate Population: 1381
	Wikipedia:	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_E._Donaldson_Correctional_Facility