parole hearings

Miriam Shehane, who founded a victims’ rights movement in Alabama after the killing of her daughter, has. She was 91. Shehane in 1982 founded Victims of Crime and Leniency. She led a victims’ rights movement that reshaped Alabama’s judicial and parole system.

The man once known as Alabama's longest-serving sheriff has been granted parole and is due to be released soon from prison. The Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles voted 2-1 Thursday, April 11 to parole former Limestone County Sheriff Mike Blakely.

The state of Alabama has a new online system to automatically notify crime victims when a state inmate has a parole date or is being released from prison.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles is resuming parole hearings after a two-month stoppage.The newly appointed director of…