During that meeting, lawmakers grilled Gwathney on why the parole board had all but stopped granting paroles, paroling just 8 percent of eligible inmates in 2023. “One of the two needs to be ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WIAT) — Cam Ward, director of the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles, said parole grant rates are ending the year at a record high. In an October meeting of the Joint Prison ...

In the three years prior to expansion, 30 medical paroles were granted in Oklahoma; since 2021, there have been only six.