Last year, Alabama’s top prosecutor said the parole system is working, and “dangerous offenders are largely the only ones left behind bars.” Was he right? Thousands of people in Alabama lockups are ...

As a state senator five years ago, Cam Ward sponsored a criminal justice reform bill hailed as an important step to relieve overcrowding in Alabama prisons. Today, the U.S. Department of Justice ...

The Judiciary Committee on Wednesday interviewed two nominees for the state’s Board of Pardons and Paroles, focusing on how likely the nominees would be to approve sentence modifications and to take ...