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Speaker Mac McCutcheon said the House had a good week after passing a number of priority bills.
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Speaker Mac McCutcheon said the House had a good week after passing a number of priority bills.
The bills address community corrections, judicial discretion in sentencing and the cost of housing state inmates in county jails.
Day seven of the 2021 Legislative Session begins on Tuesday.
In Alabama, 26 percent of inmates are serving life with or without parole or sentences of at least 50 years.
The cases would go back to the trial judge, not the Pardons and Paroles Board.
The Alabama Department of Corrections on Friday responded to a scathing report released Thursday by the U.S. Department of Justice detailing correctional officers’ violence...
West Alabama District Attorney Andy Hamlin defended the court decision to revoke Sean Worsley’s probation, sending the Black disabled veteran to state prison for...
The Alabama Cannabis Industry Association on Monday released a statement critical of the decision by an Alabama court to imprison an Arizona man for...
A 2016 arrest for marijuana that has turned into a 60-month sentence in an Alabama penitentiary for a disabled veteran from Arizona is drawing...
On Thursday the long-awaited policy recommendations of Gov Kay Ivey’s bi-partisan Study Group on Criminal Justice Policy were released, which include suggestions on spending,...
