BESSEMER, Ala. — Three correctional sergeants at William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility have been arrested on charges that they failed to protect an inmate despite advance warning of an impending assault, adding a new criminal case to scrutiny of an Alabama prison system facing a federal lawsuit over violence, sexual abuse and unsafe conditions.
The Alabama Department of Corrections said Saturday that Neicko White, Michael Underwood and Devontay Jackson failed to take reasonable protective measures before other inmates attacked a prisoner Oct. 25 at the prison in western Jefferson County.
White and Jackson were arrested Nov. 5, and Underwood was arrested Nov. 6. Each faces a misdemeanor charge of failure of duty or violation of law by a guard or person in charge of convicts. All three were released from the Jefferson County Jail’s Bessemer Division after bond was set at $3,000 each, according to reporting by AL.com based on court and jail records…