Less than three days after arriving at Limestone Correctional Facility in Harvest, Alabama, Carl Powell, 40, is believed to have been murdered on October 26, 2024.
Although the family was initially informed that their son died of natural causes, the coroner reported to the family that the cause of death was homicide.
The family made arrangements with the prison for their son’s body to be sent to the family’s funeral home. After their son’s body did not arrive at the funeral home, the family called the prison and learned that their son had been taken to a different funeral home and embalmed. The family did not want their son embalmed and did not know why he was sent to a different funeral home.
To date, the Alabama Department of Corrections has released no information to the family about how their son died.
Mr. Powell is at least the fifth person killed at Limestone in the past seven months. On March 5, Taurus White, 28, was stabbed to death shortly before completing his sentence. On March 23, Samuel Ward, 39, was killed inside his housing dormitory. On June 27, Brelin McAlpine, 26, was stabbed to death at the prison inside a housing area. And on September 2, Elvin Cook, 31, was killed inside a cell in Limestone’s restrictive housing unit.