Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles receives $700,000 for rehabilitation program

The bureau was awarded a Swift, Certain, and Fair Supervision grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance for its Responsive Monitoring of Violent and Sex Offenders Program.
The project seeks to provide as many violent offenders and sex offenders as possible with resources that prevent them from falling back into the prison system.
The bureau director tells WSFA there are over 40,000 Alabamians on probation and parole. He said these newly awarded dollars are going to help with rehabilitation efforts.