Regial Ingram
Regial Ingram was 32 and lived with mental illness. He had been housed in a unit for men with mental illness until, months earlier, the Alabama Department of Corrections moved those men into the general population. On May 8, 2021, he was fatally stabbed in a dormitory at Bullock Correctional Facility in Union Springs, in what the department called an apparent assault by another man held there. His was the third killing inside Alabama's prisons in less than five days.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody. The Alabama Department of Corrections says he was fatally stabbed in an apparent inmate-on-inmate assault at Bullock Correctional Facility.
Reported by: Alabama Department of Corrections (the agency that held him); Equal Justice Initiative (advocates).