| Opened: |
1972 |
| Warden: |
Charles Hadley |
| Phone: |
(334) 242-2510 |
| Mailing Address: |
1290 Red Eagle Road
Montgomery, AL 36110 |
| Street Address: |
1290 Red Eagle Road
Montgomery, AL 36110 |
| Capacity: |
264 |
In 1893, the Department purchased the
Williams Plantation property and used it as a farming operation in
support of other prisons. Previously known as Number Four Camp and
Number Four Spot, the low lying farmland is located three miles north
of Montgomery, and consists of 2,385 acres of land bordered on three
sides by the Tallapoosa River. During the Department’s road camp era,
the facility was used to house county misdemeanants. After the old
Kilby Prison was closed on January 21, 1970, Number Four Camp also
closed. However, during June 1972, Number Four Honor Camp was reopened
to expand the newly developed work release program’s capacity.
Initially, the work release inmates were housed in barracks converted
from old chicken houses. In 1976, and continuing to 1983, the facility
was renovated by constructing two dormitories, which created a capacity
for 264 minimum custody inmates.
Red Eagle provides about 125
inmates for free inmate labor in community service jobs on a daily
basis with the state trooper’s post and central garage, the state
coliseum, the Department’s central offices, and other state agencies.
Red Eagle also provides about 23 inmates whom work during the week on
location at statewide schools and county jails for the Alabama
Correctional Industries, and return to Red Eagle on the weekend.
Red
Eagle was a name given to William Weatherford, a noted leader of the
Creek Indians. The facility’s property contains numerous archeological
artifacts from an early Creek meeting ground. In 1976, the Chief and
Council of the Creek Indian Nation gave approval to the Department to
use Red Eagle’s name for the facility.