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New Alabama paroles director: Bureau part of fix for ‘broken’ criminal justice system
Updated Dec 28, 2020;
Posted Dec 24, 2020
Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles Director Cam Ward resigned his seat in the state Senate to accept Gov. Kay Ivey s appointment.
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As a state senator five years ago, Cam Ward sponsored a criminal justice reform bill hailed as an important step to relieve overcrowding in Alabama prisons.
Today, the U.S. Department of Justice contends that Alabama has failed to improve its prisons, which hold about 150% of the population they were designed to house. In a lawsuit filed Dec. 9, the DOJ claims that Alabama incarcerates inmates in dangerous conditions that violate the Constitution. ....

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