Carla Crowder, the executive director of nonprofit legal center AlaAppleseed, said the data is “disturbing, but not surprising given the racial disparities Appleseed has documented at all stages of the criminal justice system in Alabama.”
Updated:Black men are being paroled from Alabama prisons less often and serving longer sentences than white men. That’s according to state data over a two-month snapshot from early 2023, covering nearly 700 parole hearings.
Among those 640, some 60% of people who actually got parole were white, despite the majority of prisoners who went before the board being Black.Nearly half of Black male inmates who were granted parole had already served at least 75% of their court-ordered sentence – an average of 14.5 years – or were serving life sentences with a chance for parole.Most white prisoners who were granted parole in April and May were relatively new in prison and had served less than a quarter of their sentence.
Rep. Matt Simpson, R – Daphne, said that the data showing Black men serve more time in prison before getting paroled should be sorted by several factors and did not create an “apples to apples” comparison. “This disparity is uniquely harmful to Black men in Alabama because our prisons are unsafe and harmful, rather than rehabilitative,” said Crowder. “So the parole board’s racially biased decisions are resulting in incarcerated Black men being subjected to violent, drug infested, corrupt prison conditions at much higher rates than everyone else. This demands an explanation from the Board and additional oversight.
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