From The Tribune staff reports
BESSEMER — Two inmates died at the William Donaldson Correctional Facility this weekend.
According to the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office, 65-year-old Lee Clemon Hardy was an inmate at William Donaldson Correctional Facility serving a 20-year sentence for robbery from a 2003 conviction out of Calhoun County.
He was found unresponsive in the prison infirmary on Saturday, July 30, at 11:15 a.m., where he was receiving care for significant natural disease and the death is believed to be of natural causes.
Paul Stephen Smith
Paul Stephen Smith, 65, was an inmate at William Donaldson Correctional Facility serving a life sentence for murder from a 1986 conviction out of Cullman County.
He was found unresponsive in the prison infirmary on Friday, July 29, at 7:42 a.m., where he was receiving care for significant natural disease, and the death is believed to be of natural causes.
The Jefferson County Coroner/Medical Examiner’s Office requests the public’s assistance in locating Smith’s family. He has no emergency contact information listed, and his brother, Tony Smith, once lived in Pensacola, Florida, but all attempts to locate him have failed.
If you are family or if you have knowledge of family, authorities ask you to call the Jefferson County Coroner/Medical Examiner’s Office at 205-930-3603.
