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The House Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security gave a favorable report on Wednesday to a bill that would require the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles to consider a wider range of factors when determining an inmate's parole.
Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles director Cam Ward recently appointed Darryl Littleton as deputy director for Administration and Law Enforcement Services, effective January 16.
On Wednesday, lawmakers on the Joint Prison Oversight Committee had a series of tense exchanges with Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles chair Leigh Gwathney regarding the board’s guidelines for reviewing possible parolees.
According to the DA, when her office reached out to the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles for information about a convicted murderer released in Blount County, she was told he no longer had an ankle monitor and was considered “low risk.”
State officials in Alabama rejected parole for 90% of eligible inmates last fiscal year, according to reports released by the Alabama Bureau of Pardons & Paroles (ABPP).