The Reentry Commission recent discussed risk assessments used to make important decisions related to inmates, such as work release and parole.

Good morning West Alabama. It is Thursday, January 16, 2025. It is the 16th day of the year with 349 remaining.

The Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles held 20 hearings on Jan. 7, one of which granted parole to a Chilton County offender ...

Reentry Alabama highlights challenges in workforce reentry due to Alabama’s broad occupational licensing barriers, urging ...

A nonprofit that focuses on social justice issues plans to prioritize poverty, health care and changes to the criminal ...

On Saturday, Leanna Washington, 36, of LaGrange, Georgia was found dead in the James Morgan County Detention Facility in ...

A year after they filed a federal lawsuit to end “a modern-day form of slavery,” the plaintiffs representing prisoners in Alabama and their advocates are […] ‘I Ain’t Come In Here to be a Slave’: ...

A year after they filed a federal lawsuit to end “a modern-day form of slavery,” the plaintiffs representing prisoners in ...

That’s because in Alabama the ... prisoners coming up for parole were released, with no clear racial disparity, it noted. But that changed several years ago when the board began disregarding ...

“What it’s been is a representative of the attorney general’s office controlling the parole board in my opinion.” But not everyone who goes before Alabama’s parole board has a former ...

After a year in the public spotlight, the head of the Alabama parole board once again chose to say nothing. “Any questions will have to go to Matthew (our spokesperson),” said Leigh Gwathney ...

DADEVILLE — A storm was looming when the inmate serving 20 years for armed robbery was assigned to transport fellow prisoners to their jobs at private manufacturers supplying goods to companies ...