when Alabama changed its good time law? I have been searching the web, and no luck. It's important that I find out when. Can ya help me?

Revised Criminal Code with increased penalties for repeat felons and violent offenders.

Adoption of Habitual Felony Offender Law, mandatory/minimum sentences for violent offenders and abolition of good-time credits for long-term (over ten years) inmates.

Sentence enhancements for felonies involving a firearm or other deadly weapon (20 year mandatory imprisonment for Class A, 10 years for Class B and C).

Parole Board adopts guidelines to increase the amount of time served by violent offenders.

Significant Changes in Alabama’s Good Time Law - abolishing good time for all Class A felons. Correctional Incentive Time Act, Act 80-446.

Federal District Judge Frank M. Johnson appoints a 21-person committee to oversee the operation of the system; later replaced by a 3-member monitoring panel to ensure state compliance with federal court orders.

1990

http://sentencingcommission.alacourt.gov/history.html

Thanks, Denise. Is there any way to read this law. I searched by using those numbers. I need to know what the good time law was before it was what it is now. Now if they get over 15. Before was it twenty years or what?

http://www.ago.state.al.us/

on the left hand side under "from other sites" there's a link for "search AL Law"..see if you can find it there...i'll go look too.

I Looked and it only goes back to 2000, i would bet you could email a request for it and they could email it back to you. I believe this is a common practice.

I tried doing a search but they said the site was under going something or other...in other couldn't use it right now. I don't really want to email the office. I'm just wondering about this since by changing that law it helped with the prison overcrowding. I mentioned this to a reporter and that person asked when such a law was changed. Of course, my mind got to thinking about that has never been mentioned in any of the articles, but the habitual offender law has. I would like to see some attention brought to the fact that since they changed that law, it as well as the habitual offender law has helped overcrowd the prisons to the point they are now. If there was attention brought to this, then maybe the ones who are for changing the law will speak up more. And oh, yeah, thanks Denise for your help. You do know that just because Kenny gets out, you can't just go to the house and not ever come back...well...at least for a while...I know when peole get their loved ones back home, they have other things on their mind and they move on.

..I know when peole get their loved ones back home, they have other things on their mind and they move on.

NOT A CHANCE .. thing is, Kenny is a convicted sex offender, so i'll still be around, still fighting the system, so you guys are stuck with me, of course i'll be taking some time off, but you can count on me being back...

Plus after 19 years in prison Kenny is leaving behind a lot of close friends that he care's deeply about so he'll want to stay "up to date" as well....

Hey, this person I know said that they, (who they are I don't know) was trying to get them to lighten up some on some of the laws dealing with sex offenders...that they were taking it too far or something. I don't really know what they were talking about. If I hear anything, I'll let you know

thanks, but as long as Troy King is in office i don't see them lighten up at all, don't get me wrong, I want to know where sex offenders are, but only those that pose a risk. Kenny's crime had nothing to do with a child but he is treated as if it did. these laws in alabama treat a old man pissing in the street the same as they do a child molestor..they have "bunched" them all into the same group, which is unfair. on top of that, back 20 years ago when Kenny plead quilty to his crime there was not any sex offender registor laws, so its like they've added to his sentence after the fact..

wow, i'm off topic here sorry.

denisej

I will ask my husband tonight when that law was changed, i think it was changed in the latter part of the 80's or early 90's. And Denise you are right as long as troy king is the AG things aren't gonna change which is ashame.

They shouldn'j't all be lump together. A teenage boy can be branded as a sex offender because he and his girlfriend were "making love one night" and something goes wrong...like her parents find out amd brings charges because he's 18 and she's 15...which they knew when they let their 15 year old date. No, I don't know anyone in this kind of case, but if they wanted to, they can be cause she under age and he's not. That's not right. There are some that should never see the light of day again, and there are some that have been called, branded, when they didn't do anything to anybody. It has turned into more then just a crime...to some people, it's a way to 'get even' with someone when no crime has been committed.

I will ask my husband tonight when that law was changed, i think it was changed in the latter part of the 80's or early 90's. And Denise you are right as long as troy king is the AG things aren't gonna change which is ashame.


lets VOTE HIM OUT OF OFFICE.....

well joes been out two years and im still around, sometimes you just cant help but stick around the ones you love