An Alabama House committee Wednesday stalled a bill that would have established guidelines for parole and risk assessments for applicants. Via ALReflector:
The Board of Pardons and Paroles currently has the discretion to ignore recommendations and risk assessment in determining parole decisions. England’s bill would require the board to use the council’s guidelines and explain departures from them.
. Critics say the process is arbitrary and exacerbates an overcrowding crisis in Alabama state prisons that has brought a lawsuit from the U.S. Department of Justice. Republicans on the committee raised several objections to the bill. Some objected to the appeal process in the legislation. Rep. Matt Simpson, R-Daphne, said it would grow the size of the government.
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