Alabama said he was too dangerous to parole. He’d been dead for 10 days.
He missed a meeting with a parole officer. Alabama sent him back to prison for life.
Battered woman shot her abuser 32 years ago. Alabama’s parole board won’t let her out.
He spends his days selling fast food. Alabama claims he’s too dangerous to parole
Parole denied for 68-year-old in Alabama: ‘A life sentence for growing marijuana’
‘This system is broken’: State officials call for change to Alabama’s parole board
Alabama has even stopped paroling the elderly: ‘They put us in there to die.’
Who killed Daniel Williams? A tale of terror in Alabama prisons
Alabama lawmakers distance themselves from parole board, families say loved ones ‘stuck for life’
Family members of those locked in Alabama’s prisons flooded a legislative meeting and told stories of their loved ones. Those who spoke detailed the horrors of the prison system, while some focused on the parole board.
Alabama argued to keep Lowe’s shoplifter in prison. Roy Moore came to his defense.
Willie Conner was spending his life in prison for stealing a nailgun in 2012 when Roy Moore called and offered to represent him. Last week, Moore fought for Conner's parole under intense questioning from one board member.
Alabama paroles hit historic lows last year: Here’s what changed amid scrutiny in 2024
The parole rate during each month of 2024 has been more than double the average for 2023. Some say the increase is a step in the right direction, but there's more to be done.
He missed a meeting and got sent back to prison. Now Alabama is giving him another chance.
Kenneth McCroskey's freedom comes after AL.com reported his case in the series “Denied: Alabama’s broken parole system.” After that story, a lawyer offered to represent him pro bono.
They want to ‘die with a clear conscience.’ But in Alabama, pardons are harder to come by
Alabama isn’t as stingy with pardons as with paroles. But the same three-member board handles both, and the forgiveness of long ago crimes and restoration of rights has also become harder to come by in recent years.
Battered woman shot her abuser 32 years ago. Alabama’s parole board won’t let her out.
Marguerite Brooks said she doesn’t know why the parole board doesn’t deem three decades enough for killing the man who, she thinks, would have killed her.
Archibald: The Alabama Senate just took a stunning stand
And to Sen. Will Barfoot.
She forgave her daughter’s killer. Alabama’s parole chair couldn’t believe it.
Parole hearings usually last a few minutes. But Robert George’s ran two and a half hours, much of it consumed by board Chair Leigh Gwathney’s questioning the victim’s mother's decision to forgive.
Archibald: Nobody is in charge of Alabama prisons
It's like a game of whack-a-mole.
Archibald: To Alabama AG Steve Marshall, justice is a one-way street
It is not about good guys and bad guys. But when the state of Alabama becomes the party that willfully violates the rights of people, the bad guys are harder to identify.
‘This system is broken’: State officials call for change to Alabama’s parole board
“There’s an old phrase that sunshine is the best antiseptic,” said former Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb. “The sunshine that AL.com has brought upon the decisions by the Alabama parole board chair exemplifies this old adage.”
A judge gave him a chance at freedom. The Alabama parole board shot it down.
After a judge's resentencing, a DA's agreement, and more than two decades for a robbery that didn't physically injure anyone, he was still denied parole.
Victims forgave them. Alabama still wouldn’t parole them.
“Every time I called an official from the state of Alabama, I was met with resistance because my family and I have chosen to forgive Mr. Layton and our hope is that he will be granted parole and given a second chance at a good life."
Archibald: Alabama prisoners’ organs vanish, and there’s a whole lot of passing the buck. And the bodies.
What’s happening in Alabama is ghoulish.
Archibald: Alabama says it’s tough on drug crime. It just perpetuates it.
It's ineffective, expensive, inhumane and unfair.
Alabama said he was too dangerous to parole. He’d been dead for 10 days.
On a spring day last year, the Alabama parole board split over the fate of Fredrick Bishop. But the board missed a key detail in the case: He was already dead.
Roy Moore regretted sending her to prison for life. Now Alabama won’t let her out on parole.
Stacy Shadwrick is serving a life sentence for a 1991 Rainbow City robbery. She's been out on parole before, but can't seem to find her way out again under this parole board.
He spends his days selling fast food. Alabama claims he’s too dangerous to parole
Arrested years ago on a marijuana charge, Christopher M. McClinton sleeps in an Alabama prison. He's on work release, spending most days working at a fast food restaurant.
Alabama has even stopped paroling the elderly: ‘They put us in there to die.’
The older they get, the less likely they are to be paroled today in Alabama. John Coleman spent decades in prison and talks about what it's like to get out at 88.
He missed a meeting with a parole officer. Alabama sent him back to prison for life.
Kenneth McCroskey was paroled and had a good job for several years, but got sent back on a technical violation. Now he can't find his way back out.
Who killed Daniel Williams? A tale of terror in Alabama prisons
Williams’ death “could have been prevented. Instead, choices were made over and over again to take no investigative or corrective action.”
Parole denied for 68-year-old in Alabama: ‘A life sentence for growing marijuana’
Leon Hotchkiss, now 68, remains behind bars in Alabama, spending decades imprisoned for growing pot. The parole board thinks he should stay there.
Alabama has stopped nearly all paroles: Explaining the Leigh Gwathney effect
The chair of Alabama parole board, Leigh Gwathney, voted against releasing a quadriplegic last year. During one 10-week span in the summer, she voted "no" 245 times and "yes" just 6 times. The parole rate has now dropped to just 8%. “It’s really arrogance,” said a former board member.
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