MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) is excited to announce the hiring of several key staff members made possible by Act 2024-307, with strong support of the Alabama Legislature Joint Prison Oversight Committee.
Arthur Fredericks has been hired as the Governor Kay Ivey Correctional Complex Administrator. Fredericks retired as a warden in 2018 from the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and since 2019, he has been a maximum security warden at the Broad River facility for the South Carolina Department of Corrections.
He has over 30 years of prison operations experience, including the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC), the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the Tarrant County (TX) Sheriff’s Office, the Duval County (FL) Sheriff’s Office, and the Florida Department of Corrections. Fredericks has worked at 11 facilities in six states, retiring from the Bureau of Prisons and continuing his career with SCDC. He has corrections leadership experience with male and female populations, youthful offenders and medical/mental health facilities, medium, high and administrative security levels.
Ted Sexton has been hired as the Assistant Deputy Commissioner of Men’s Services. Sexton retired after 22 years as the Sheriff of Tuscaloosa County. He was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as Assistant Secretary of state and local law enforcement with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. His last position was Executive Director of the Phoenix House, a rehabilitation and reentry facility.
Joseph M. Henger has been hired as a Correctional Facility Administrator and comes to ADOC with nearly 30 years of correctional experience. Henger began his career as a Corrections Officer in Pennsylvania. He went to work for the Federal Bureau of Prisons and worked his way through the ranks over 26 years, retiring as a warden. He then moved to South Carolina Department of Corrections as an Associate Warden of Security and then on to Tennessee as the Correctional Administrator of Prison Operations.
Henger earned his Associate’s Degree in Criminal Justice from Luzerne County Community College in Pennsylvania.
Douglas M. Williams has been hired as a Correctional Facility Administrator and comes to ADOC with over 30 years of correctional experience. Williams began his career as a Corrections Officer in Georgia. He spent 30 years at the Georgia Department of Corrections, retiring as a warden. He was at Core Civic, a private correctional facility, for five years and then onto the Columbiana County Jail in Ohio.
Williams has a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice and a Master’s in Public Administration from Columbus State University in Georgia.
Stephanie Johnson has been hired as the Constituent Services Coordinator in the newly created Constituent Services Division at ADOC. It will be Johnson’s responsibility to coordinate 14 Facility Liaisons to serve the following major facilities:
Bibb
Bullock
William E. Donaldson
Easterling
Elmore
G. K. Fountain
Hamilton
William C. Holman
Kilby
Limestone
St. Clair
Staton
Julia Tutwiler
Ventress
The coordinator and liaisons will respond to and document inmate or facility-specific public inquiries.
The ADOC is committed to providing timely and accurate information to the public. The goal is to be transparent and helpful to victims and their families, offender families, legislative offices, community partners, and others.
Johnson worked previously as a Victims Services Officer at ADOC, an officer with the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles, and a mental health and substance abuse counselor.
She received a Master’s Degree from Troy University in Counseling and Psychology and a Bachelor’s Degree from Faulkner University in Human Resource Management.
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