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Bureau of Pardons and Paroles. This facility will house parolees who have technical parole violations, such as missed meetings with parole officers or failed drug tests. After repeated technical violations, they’re supposed to go to prison for 45 days, “dunks,” under current law. But county jails for years have said those inmates have lingered in the county jails where they’re first sent. Governor Ivey signed the bills into law as soon as they came over to her desk on Friday afternoon. ■

in the Governor’s call for the special session, but only one passed into law. House Bill 2 increases the number of inmates who could be released prior to the end of their sentence and placed under supervision of the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles. House Minority Leader Chris England said he will keep pushing for changes with the state’s parole system and sentencing reform. Republicans said the other reform bill died because the short special session wasn’t the venue to debate it, but they’re open to future discussions. Separate from the new construction, lawmakers allocated $19 million for the purchase of a long-empty 730-bed prison in Perry County for the use of the Alabama

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