Travis Hutchins, a 34-year-old Black man, was fatally stabbed on October 7, 2021, inside a housing dormitory at Bibb Correctional Facility in Brent, Alabama. The Alabama Department of Corrections confirmed his death and said its Law Enforcement Services Division opened an investigation; officials had not released the attacker’s identity or detailed circumstances.

Hutchins had raised safety concerns while incarcerated. In 2016 he sued officials at Easterling Correctional Facility, alleging they failed to protect him after an earlier stabbing and denied his requests to be moved for protection. His sister also reported he had been stabbed while sleeping in August 2020. Hutchins’s killing was reported as the ninth homicide in Alabama’s prison system in 2021.

No arrests, charges, or convictions in connection with his death have been announced publicly. If anyone has information about Hutchins’s death or his time in Alabama prisons, please share what you know.