ABPP Supervision Records

After ADOC Release

A person can be out of prison and still under ABPP authority. ABPP publishes parole hearing schedules, current-year results, hearing-result archives, and information about mandatory release. Those records help explain whether a state-prison release followed a parole grant, a mandatory supervised-release process, or another ADOC event.

ABPP's hearing operations are physically centered in Montgomery. General hearing information places parole and pardon hearings at 301 South Ripley Street, with weekly hearings on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday unless otherwise noted. This makes ABPP locally important even though it is a statewide agency.

How to Verify ABPP Status

1. Check whether the person was sentenced to ADOC custody before using ABPP records.
2. Review scheduled parole hearings for upcoming consideration dates.
3. Review current-year results and archived hearing results for grant, denial, or continuance outcomes.
4. Use Alabama VNS fields for Release Date and Mandatory Release to Supervision when available.
5. Contact ABPP for supervision-status questions that are not answered by public hearing records.

ABPP Contact

Parole, Results, and Mandatory Release

ABPP's parole FAQ says eligibility consideration is calculated under Ala. Code Section 15-22-28(e), with factors such as sentence, crime, jail credit, good-time ability, time served, and sentencing-court orders. Eligibility is not a promise of release. ABPP's Institutional Parole Services page also explains mandatory release under Code Section 15-22-26.2 for eligible offenses committed on or after January 30, 2016, with exclusions noted by the agency.

Hearings and Results

ABPP publishes scheduled parole hearings, current-year parole results, and archived hearing results. The scheduled-hearings page is for upcoming hearings. The results pages show outcomes after Board action, with categories such as grant, deny, and continue appearing in the research. A grant is an important release-related decision, but it is not the same thing as a Montgomery County jail release timestamp. It belongs to the state-prison and supervision path.

The General Hearing Information page says parole and pardon hearings are held in open public meeting each week on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday unless otherwise noted. Hearings are held at 301 South Ripley Street in Montgomery, and waiting rooms open at 7:30 AM. This local hearing location is why ABPP belongs in the Montgomery facility/system set even though the agency operates statewide.

Mandatory Release and Supervision

Mandatory release can be confused with discretionary parole. ABPP's Institutional Parole Services page explains mandatory release under Code Section 15-22-26.2 as an automated release process for eligible offenses committed on or after January 30, 2016, with exclusions noted in the research, including child sex offenders and life sentences. A person released through mandatory supervision may be out of prison but still subject to ABPP supervision.

Alabama VNS helps interpret this because it includes a Mandatory Release to Supervision field, while ADOC definitions include Parole Status language such as currently on parole, declared delinquent, or revoked. A county jail roster does not confirm those statewide supervision stages. For a Montgomery user, the correct chain is court judgment, ADOC custody and release fields, VNS notification data, and ABPP supervision or hearing records.

ABPP Record Limits

ABPP records should be used for parole, mandatory-supervision, and hearing-result questions. They should not be used to decide whether a person was recently released from the Mac Sim Butler Montgomery County Detention Facility. For county jail release, use the sheriff and court. For state-prison release with supervision, use ABPP with ADOC and Alabama VNS. For federal release, use BOP. For ICE custody, use ICE.

When contacting ABPP, gather the full name, AIS number if known, sentencing county, offense, approximate release or hearing date, and the specific question. The research lists ABPP's main phone, fax, weekday hours, Ripley Street address, and questions@paroles.alabama.gov. A narrow question about hearing results, parole status, mandatory supervision, delinquency, revocation, or completion is more useful than a general request for release history.

Parole Is Not County Release

ABPP should be consulted only after the custody trail reaches Alabama state-prison supervision. A person released on bond from the Montgomery County jail is not automatically an ABPP case. A person released to Community Corrections pretrial monitoring is still in a local court path. ABPP becomes relevant when a sentenced ADOC inmate is considered for parole, released to parole, released to mandatory supervision, declared delinquent, revoked, or discharged from state supervision.

This separation prevents the common mistake of treating every "released inmate" as a parole case. The county jail, court, ADOC, VNS, and ABPP each answer different points in the timeline. ABPP is the post-release supervision point for Alabama prison cases.

Montgomery Hearing Location

ABPP is also a Montgomery-specific system because its public hearing location and main contact address are in Montgomery at 301 S. Ripley Street. The research lists weekday hours of 7:30 AM to 5:00 PM, with closure on weekends and state or federal holidays. For users trying to verify a parole outcome, the hearing schedule and results pages should be checked before calling, because those public pages may already show whether the Board granted, denied, or continued a hearing.

When the public pages do not answer the question, ABPP contact is the next step for supervision status, mandatory-release questions, or confirmation of a completed supervision stage. Pair any ABPP response with ADOC, VNS, and court records so the release date, hearing result, and supervision status are not collapsed into one event.

Reading ABPP Outcome Records

ABPP outcome records should be read as supervision and parole records, not as jail-discharge logs. A grant, denial, or continuance explains what the Board did at a hearing. It does not prove the exact time a person walked out of a facility. If a grant leads to release, the release still has to line up with ADOC processing, any VNS Release Date field, and the supervision conditions set by ABPP.

Mandatory release has the same problem in a different form. It is described by ABPP as an automated process for eligible cases, but the person remains under supervision after leaving prison. VNS may show Mandatory Release to Supervision, while ABPP can answer supervision questions and ADOC records can show the prison-custody side. Montgomery users should keep those records together because each one documents a different part of the release event.