Inmate Dies from Multiple Stab Wounds at Elmore Prison
The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) is investigating the fatal stabbing of a state inmate that was reported at Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore on Wednesday, July 5.
At approximately 7 a.m. on Wednesday, correctional officers responded to an incident in one of the facility housing areas where they found inmate Joseph Clark Holloway, 52, with multiple stab wounds. Holloway was airlifted to a local hospital and later died from his injuries. Demarcus Lashawn Baker, 26, is a suspect in the stabbing.
Holloway was serving a 40-year sentence on a 1993 first-degree robbery conviction in Chambers County. Baker received a 20-year sentence in 2011 for first-degree robbery in Baldwin County. He now faces a murder charge.
Staton Correctional Facility is on temporary lockdown while ADOC agents investigate the circumstances that led to the incident.
