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Despite Unemployment Spike, Alabama Refuses Prisoners Work-Release Paroles

Alabama is notoriously stingy with parole grants to eligible prisoners, but it also leaves many to languish in work-release centers, where the unemployment rate in January 2024 hit 26%—far above the state’s overall rate of just 2.9%

Though numbering just 350 of the state’s 20,469 prisoners, the unemployed highlight the ...

 

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