Birmingham, AL – Alabama's Board of Pardons and Paroles is turning over its transition center for women paroled from the state prison system to the state Department of Corrections.
Corrections Commissioner Richard Allen says his department will be in control of the center by July.
The center, which opened six years ago, is less than a mile from the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women, which is under court order to keep its population at no more than 700.
The center was designed to relieve overcrowding in Tutwiler and give women paroled from the prison system vocational training, drug treatment, and other tools to make it on the outside.
Pardons and Paroles Board chairman Bill Wynne says the program hasn't been able to fill its classes with parolable women.
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