{"id":86714,"date":"2025-02-14T00:33:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T00:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/alabama\/alabama-house-committee-approves-bill-for-parole-oversight\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T00:33:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T00:33:33","slug":"alabama-house-committee-approves-bill-for-parole-oversight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=86714","title":{"rendered":"Alabama House committee approves bill for parole oversight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alabama lawmakers advanced a bill on Wednesday that would introduce oversight of the state\u2019s parole board, which has drawn attention for its historically low parole approval rates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The House Judiciary Committee approved HB40, sponsored by Rep. Chris England, D- Tuscaloosa. It moved to the full House of Representatives for consideration, passing the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday afternoon with 8 votes in favor, 6 opposed and one abstaining.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The bill would create the Criminal Justice Policy Development Council to oversee the development of parole release guidelines. The three-member parole board would continue to decide whether inmates are granted parole, but they would be required to provide a written explanation whenever they deviate from their established guidelines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The inmate could also appeal any deviations from the guidelines in the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cOver the years, I\u2019ve said that this bill does not take away the discretion of the board itself. If you\u2019ve been paying any attention to the news recently, you know the board has no oversight,\u201d England said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2019, the board was tasked with taking two years years of data to determine if the currently guidelines for parole were adequate. England reiterated that despite multiple attempts to request this data, nothing has been reported to the legislature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At a recent Joint Prison Oversight Committee meeting, Alabama Parole Board Chairperson Leigh Gwathney spoke and admitted to changing some of the scoresheets for inmates, and England said on Wednesday that regardless of what changes were made, those alterations make the scoresheets unusable for collecting data they\u2019ve been seeking.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div class=\"zox-post-ad-wrap\"><span class=\"zox-ad-label\">Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI think it\u2019s a recognition that the current Parole Board and the process itself is broken,\u201d England said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alabama\u2019s parole rate has dramatically dropped in recent years. In 2018, 53 percent of inmates were granted parole after hearings, but that number fell to a historic low of 8 percent in 2023. The parole rate rebounded slightly to around 20 percent in 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSo at this point, the oversight is necessary because while you may agree with the results\u2026 there may be a point in the future where you don\u2019t agree with the result and it\u2019s been made quite plainly by the actions of the current board that there\u2019s nothing that we can do regardless,\u201d England said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Updates to the inmate classification system, which is used by the prisons, the guidelines and risk assessment would be completed by October 2027 under the current version of the bill. The council would stand dissolved at the beginning of 2028.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama lawmakers advanced a bill on Wednesday that would introduce oversight of the state\u2019s parole board, which has drawn attention for its historically low parole approval rates. The House Judiciary Committee approved HB40, sponsored by Rep. Chris England, D- Tuscaloosa. It moved to the full House of Representatives for consideration, passing the House Judiciary Committee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11763],"tags":[33526,12750,42578,18212,6795,13710,42579,42580,594,16594,42583,42581,42582],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-86714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alabama","tag-2025-legislative-session","tag-alabama","tag-alabama-board-of-pardons-and-paroles","tag-approves","tag-bill","tag-committee","tag-criminal-justice-policy-development-council","tag-hb40","tag-house","tag-oversight","tag-parole","tag-parole-oversight","tag-rep-chris-england"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Alabama House committee approves bill for parole oversight - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=86714\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alabama House committee approves bill for parole oversight - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Alabama lawmakers advanced a bill on Wednesday that would introduce oversight of the state\u2019s parole board, which has drawn attention for its historically low parole approval rates. 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