Four Alabama advocacy organizations joined forces to demand changes to the guidelines that serve as guides for whether to grant parole requests.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, Alabama Arise, Alabama Justice Initiative and ACLU of Alabama drafted the letter as part of a public comment session on proposed regulation 640-X-A-2 repealing and replacing the current parole guidelines.
The first suggested change is to ensure that where the severity of the original offense is “low” that it does not count as a point against the individual…