Cedric Jerome Robinson

Cedric Jerome Robinson, 33, was held at Bibb County Correctional Facility in Brent, Alabama, when he died on September 8, 2017. The Alabama Department of Corrections said he was stabbed several times in a dorm that morning by other men held there and was pronounced dead at Bibb Medical Center. A local news report said surveillance video shows four men attacking him and another man, who survived.

Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody. The Alabama Department of Corrections says four inmates stabbed him inside a dorm at Bibb County Correctional Facility, and the Equal Justice Initiative also reports he was killed there.

Reported by: Alabama Department of Corrections (the agency that held him); Equal Justice Initiative (advocates); Dallas County District Attorney Michael Jackson.

News reports (5)

• 1 inmate dead, another injured in stabbing at Bibb Co. Correctional WBRC, September 8, 2017
• 4 charged in Bibb County Correctional Facility attack, fatal stabbing WSFA, September 8, 2017
• Alabama Has Nation’s Most Violent Prisons, and They’re Getting Worse Equal Justice Initiative, September 18, 2017
• Alabama Reaches New Record High Number of Prison Homicides Equal Justice Initiative, February 16, 2018
• 2 convicted in 2017 Bibb Correctional Facility fatal stabbing WSFA, August 19, 2021