Bob Riley did something that no other governor before him or since had done. Corrections officers and inmates alike refer to Holman as “The Bottom” because it represents the “bottom of the barrel” and houses the very worst of the worst inmates in Alabama. Riley, as Rawls reported, seemed most concerned about the safety of corrections officers who sat alone and outnumbered in raised, lifeguard-style chairs inside dormitories housing 180 inmates. Asking if he could make another cover and send it to him for his own Bible, Riley handed the inmate his mailing address. Corrections officers, not doctors or nurses, would insert the needle and operate the syringes because medical professionals swear an oath to save lives, not take them.