parole hearings

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey appointed a corrections deputy as head of the state parole board, replacing the outgoing chair who led the board during a period of few releases. Ivey appointed Hal Nash, the chief corrections deputy of the Jackson County Sheriff's Office, as the new chairman of the three-person Board of Pardons and Paroles. He replaces Leigh Gwathney, whose term expired. Nash's appointment is effective immediately.

Alabama lawmakers are advancing a bill that would put oversight on the state’s parole board. The parole board has garnered national attention for low parole rates. State officials are also looking to borrow additional money for prison construction to ensure the state can build a second 4,000-bed prison.

Miriam Shehane, who founded a victims’ rights movement in Alabama after the killing of her daughter, has. She was 91. Shehane in 1982 founded Victims of Crime and Leniency. She led a victims’ rights movement that reshaped Alabama’s judicial and parole system.

The man once known as Alabama's longest-serving sheriff has been granted parole and is due to be released soon from prison. The Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles voted 2-1 Thursday, April 11 to parole former Limestone County Sheriff Mike Blakely.

The state of Alabama has a new online system to automatically notify crime victims when a state inmate has a parole date or is being released from prison.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles is resuming parole hearings after a two-month stoppage.The newly appointed director of…