WSFA 12 News Montgomery, AL |Alabama Prisoners Returned
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Thanks to increased activity by the state Board of Pardons and Paroles and expanded Community Corrections, Alabama prison officials are now able to retrieve some female inmates housed in private prisons.
Corrections Department spokesman Brian Corbett says the inmate population at Tutwiler women's prison in Wetumpka is down to just over 700. That's allowing the state to return approximately 30 female inmates to state custody.
Corbett said Thursday that if the accelerated paroles continue to remove inmates from the system and opens available bed space, inmates -- both male and female -- will be returned to Alabama from private prison facilities in Louisiana and Mississippi.
Corbett also emphasized that the inmates are not being returned to the state for parole.
Produced by Vanessa Staples
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