Tuscaloosa’s Ted Sexton Among New Alabama Department of Corrections Hires

Tuscaloosa's own Ted Sexton is among a handful of new hires at the Alabama Department of Corrections, which oversees the state's more than two dozen prisons and boasts 2,000 employees.

ADOC announced the news in a Friday press release and said the positions were made possible by Alabama Act 2024-307, which the Legislature passed and Governor Kay Ivey signed last year.

The act allows for the appointment of two new deputy commissioners and additional appointed administrators.

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Sexton, best known locally as the sheriff of Tuscaloosa County for more than two decades, was hired as the Assistant Deputy Commissioner of Men’s Services.

He has also served under President George W. Bush as his Assistant Secretary of State and Local Law Enforcement within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. His more recent local work has been as the executive director of the Phoenix House, a rehabilitation and reentry facility.here in Tuscaloosa. 

ADOC also hired an administrator for the Governor Kay Ivey Correctional Complex, the 1.4-million-square-foot, billion-plus-dollar prison that will house 4,000 male inmates in Elmore County.

Arthur Fredericks, most recently the maximum security warden at the Broad River facility in South Carolina Department, will oversee the "megaprison."

Joseph M. Henger and Douglas M. Williams were both hired as Correctional Facility Administrators and Stephanie Johnson has been hired as the Constituent Services Coordinator.