Alabama officials are expanding a program that provides driver’s licenses and state identification cards to incarcerated people before their release, following a pilot program at Elmore Correctional Facility that issued more than 100 credentials.
Members of the Alabama Reentry Task Force received an update on the initiative during a meeting Tuesday, where officials with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency and the Alabama Department of Corrections said 111 credentials have been issued at Elmore since January.
Sam Adams, governmental affairs director for the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, said the agencies are preparing to expand the program to five additional correctional facilities after using Elmore as a test site…