Adam Bond, whose family sounded alarms about his being assaulted in an Alabama prison and their difficulty in getting information about his condition, has died at St. Clair Correctional Facility, the Alabama Department of Corrections said.

“Inmate Klifton Adam Bond was discovered unresponsive in his cell, and staff immediately began life-saving measures,” the ADOC said in an email Thursday. “He was then transferred to the Health Care Unit where life-saving measures continued but were unsuccessful. Bond was pronounced deceased by the attending physician.

“The ADOC Law Enforcement Services Division is investigating Bond’s death. The cause of death is pending an autopsy and the conclusion of the investigation.

Bond, 38, was serving a 20-year sentence for robbery and burglary convictions in Baldwin County, the ADOC said.

In November, Barbara Anne Turner, who is Bond’s aunt, said the family learned from another inmate, not prison officials, that Bond had been beaten in the head with a pipe and stabbed by an inmate at Donaldson Correctional Facility. The attack happened on Nov. 6.

Turner said she and Bond’s mother, Rebecca Crafton, called the prison repeatedly but were unable to get information. The warden called back the next day and said Bond had been taken to UAB Hospital, Turner said. But the family said they were still unable to get much information on Bond’s treatment and condition.

On Dec. 14, Turner and Crafton attended a meeting of the Alabama Legislature’s prison oversight committee, where other relatives told lawmakers about their loved ones being killed, beaten, and raped in Alabama prisons.

Turner said that day Bond was in the infirmary at Kilby Correctional Facility in Montgomery but that the family had not been allowed to see him or talk to the doctors or nurses who treating him. They said he had undergone brain surgery. Crafton showed a photo of her son on her phone that showed a scar running from behind his ear to the top of his head.

“He may have done some things wrong,” Turner said at that meeting in December. “And he was there to serve his time. We understand that. But he did not deserve to be beaten with a lead pipe on his head. Stabbed all over his body. And we as family, we should have rights. He may belong to the state of Alabama but he also belongs to us.”

The U.S. Department of Justice sued the Alabama prison system in December 2020, alleging the failure to protect the incarcerated men from violence violates the Constitution. The state has acknowledged problems in its prisons, including severe understaffing, but has denied the unconstitutional conditions.