The U.S. Justice Department says Alabama is unnecessarily institutionalizing children with physical disabilities in nursing ...

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 ...

The incarcerated person will also be interviewed and an entire summary package will be provided to a parole board to vote on. If she’s denied parole, she’ll be eligible for parole review again ...

Saldívar, now 64 years-old, was sentenced to life in prison on Oct. 26, 1995, with the possibility of parole after 30 years.

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

A rep at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said killer Yolanda Saldívar, now 64, has no blemishes on her record that will keep the parole board from holding a hearing in March to determine ...

It seems that the government has overruled the Parole Board who, appointed by the government, have recommended that 128 inmates be moved to open prisons. Surely, these prisoners have been denied a ...