Died in prison
Travis Lamar Wilson Jr.
Travis Lamar Wilson Jr. was 25 years old and held at St. Clair Correctional Facility in Springville, Alabama. On the morning of Friday, February 9, 2018, he was found badly injured after a stabbing and was taken to a hospital, where he died. According to the Equal Justice Initiative, he was attacked in his own dormitory by a man who was not assigned to that dorm and should not have been there. The Alabama Department of Corrections said another man was charged, and EJI counted him as the 11th person killed in an Alabama prison in less than a year.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody
Reported by: Equal Justice Initiative (advocates); Alabama Department of Corrections (the agency that held him).