Warden, prison officer stabbed during riot by inmates in Alabama

Inmates set a fire, seized control of a dormitory and stabbed two corrections officials during a violent uprising at a prison in southern Alabama, authorities said Saturday.

Alabama Department of Corrections spokesman Bob Horton said the prison warden and a corrections officer were stabbed at one of the dormitories at the prison, just outside of Atmore.

Holman is the only state prison where executions are carried out, although the dormitory where the violence erupted is not death row.

Video that was apparently shot from inside the prison by an inmate with a contraband cell phone shows inmates starting a fire at the end of the dormitory.

Corrections officers were conducting a complete search of the prison for illegal cell phones and other contraband, prison officials said.