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| Overcrowded AL prisons still hold possible parolees for more than a year |
| By wsfa.com- Jennifer Oravet |
| Published: 10/01/2014 |
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MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) - As the state's prisons sit at 200 percent capacity, the Alabama Prison Reform Task Force may have found, in part, a solution for the woefully under funded system, in a place the committee likely never expected: The Department of Pardons and Paroles. The Council of State Governments Justice Center's Research Director, Andrew Barbee, revealed the number of arrests and felony sentences have greatly decreased since 2009. Barbee credited the pre-trial diversion, community corrections and the state's new sentencing guidelines passed in 2003. Barbee however wasn't prepared to find a 43 percent increase of prisoners this fiscal year that remained behind the wire well past their parole date, essentially back-loading the system. Read More. |
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