From the West Alabama Newsroom– The Alabama Bureau of Pardons & Paroles and Ingram State Technical College unveil a new workforce training facility — today at the Perry County PREP Center near Uniontown. A ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the opening of the facility was held Wednesday morning Ingram State provides adult education and workforce training at the PREP Center. The new…
J.F. Ingram State Technical College in Deatsville is getting a grant to provide career technical education for inmates.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers have approved a program that would allow some state inmates to receive up to a year off their sentence by completing vocational or other training, although most prisoners will not be allowed to participate. An estimated 2,500 inmates out of state prison population of about 20,000 will be eligible to participate in the new…
Governor Kay Ivey on Monday issued a supplemental emergency proclamation, which directs the Board of Pardons and Paroles to resume parole hearings, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Hearings will resume in a manner that reduces person-to-person interaction. At the same time, the Board of Pardons and Paroles will be preserving the right of crime victims, crime victim representatives, public officials and…
