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The legislation aims to expand the parole board from three members to five, and remove the power to appoint the board's chair ...
A bill to expand the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles from three members to five and make other changes to the board ...
Alabamians for Fair Justice are advocating for the state to grant parole to more people in prison. So far in 2025, the Alabama Board of Pardons & Paroles has granted about 20% to 25% of paroles to ...
Funding for the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles was reduced from $94.5 million to $90.6 million, a 4.1% decrease, in the Senate due to some lawmakers’ concerns over low parole rates and ...
A Republican state senator who leads the Alabama Legislature’s prison oversight committee said the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles refused for more than a year to answer the committee’s ...
Since 2019, the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles has been mired in controversy due to plummeting parole approval rates amidst an overcrowding crisis in Alabama prisons. Although parole approval ...
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Monday denied Mendoza’s ... and the 13th in the U.S. On Thursday, Alabama planned to execute James Osgood for the 2010 rape and murder of a woman.
The Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles has scheduled 50 parole hearings and 29 hearings on requests for pardons this week, ...