David Daniel Sloan was 45 when he died on July 17, 2022, after a violent attack inside Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer, Alabama. The assault occurred on June 24, 2022; he was taken to a local hospital in a coma, later returned to the prison infirmary, and succumbed to his injuries. His death was officially ruled a homicide.

Sloan’s killing was reported amid a string of inmate-on-inmate deaths at Donaldson, with him described as the fifth inmate killed at that facility in the first half of 2022. Public discussion around the case has emphasized understaffing, overcrowding, and a pervasive culture of violence in the Alabama prison system. No specific suspects or arrests in Sloan’s assault have been disclosed.

Did anyone with knowledge of Donaldson Correctional Facility or its inmate population in mid-2022 see or hear anything relevant to Sloan’s case?