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Work Groups
for the Year 2001

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Technology
Work Group
The Technology Work Group
was charged with obtaining services of a consulting firm which
specializes in research, planning, statistical analysis and empirical
research to develop a sentencing research database of convicted felony
offenders and inmates. The Sentencing Commission contracted with
Applied Research Services, Inc. (ARS), an Atlanta-based consulting firm,
to develop a sentencing research database that will be a baseline
clearinghouse of knowledge and facts about the State's criminal justice
system to guide formulation of policy by the Commission.
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Technology
Work Group |
Mike
Carroll, Chairman
Chief Information Officer Data Center
Administrative Office of Courts |
Honorable
G. Daniel Reeves
Circuit Judge, 18th Judicial Circuit |
John
Hamm
Public Information Officer, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Dr.
M. Keivan Deravi
Department of Economics Administrator, AUM School of Business |
Honorable
Tommy Boswell
Sheriff, Russell County |
Honorable
John David Whetstone
District Attorney, 28th Judicial Circuit |
Honorable
Steven P. Grimes
Judicial Circuit Clerk, Washington County |
Honorable
Charles C. Partin
Circuit Judge, 28th Judicial Circuit |
Isaac
Kervin
Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center |
Jim
Accardi
Assistant District Attorney, 23rd Judicial Circuit |
Martin
Miller
Network, Alabama Department of Corrections |
William
C. Segrest
Acting Assistant Executive Director of Administrative Operations
Board of Pardons & Paroles |
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Juvenile
Offenders Work Group
The Juvenile Work Group was charged with
studying components of the Alabama Juvenile Justice System, such as
commitments of nonviolent or status offenders to the department of youth
services, the backlog of juveniles being held in local or regional
detention facilities, the need to establish community-based programs, the
need to ensure that mental health youths receive appropriate treatments,
providing adequate resources, providing valid, reliable risk assessment
instruments to assist judges, and the authority for blended sentencing.
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Juvenile
Offenders Work Group |
Honorable
John Davis, Chairman
Retired Circuit Judge, Unified Family Court Project
Administrative Office of Courts |
Don
Lee
Department of Economic & Community Affairs |
Walter
Wood
Executive Director, Department of Youth Services |
Peggy
D. Walker
Montgomery |
Tom
Monroe
Juvenile Probation Services, Administrative Office of Courts |
Honorable
Aubrey Ford
District Judge, Macon County |
Honorable
Kristi Valls
District Attorney, Limestone County |
Emily
Landers
Deputy Director of Constituent Services, Governor's Office |
Dr.
Eddie Johnson
Alabama Department of Education |
David
Akins
County Administrator, Etowah County Commission |
Honorable
Charles Fleming Jr.
District Judge, Geneva County |
Robert
(Bob) Bailey
Montgomery County Youth Facility |
Barbara
Brown
Crime Victims Compensation Commission |
Honorable
Sandra H. Storm
Circuit Judge, 10th Judicial Circuit |
Charles
M. Law
Esq., Montgomery, AL |
Linda
Campbell
Department of Human Resources |
Jack
Hunter
Director, Montgomery County Youth Facility |
Honorable
Ronnie May
Sheriff, Colbert County |
John
Houston
Alabama Department of Mental Health |
Bob
Martin
CPO, Mobile Juvenile Court, Strickland Youth Center |
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Structured Sentencing
Work Group
The mission of the Structured Sentencing Work Group
was to review sentencing structure in Alabama and other states to report
to the Sentencing Commission recommended changes in keeping with the
mission of the Sentencing Commission and the goals set out by law.
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Structured
Sentencing Work Group |
Rosa
Davis, Chairman
Esquire, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney
General |
Honorable
Charles Price
Presiding Circuit Judge, 15th Judicial Circuit |
Honorable
Samuel H. Monk II
Circuit Judge, 7th Judicial Circuit |
Honorable
Eleanor I. Brooks
District Attorney, 15th Judicial Circuit |
Becki
R. Goggins
The Sentencing Institute |
Miriam
Shehane
Executive Director, Victims of Crime and Leniency |
Brenda
Roberts
Crime Victims Compensation Commission |
Honorable
Prince Preyer
Commissioner, Madison County Commission |
Honorable
Rodger Smitherman
Chair, Senate Judiciary Committee |
Clyde
E. Jones
Esquire, Glassroth & Van Heest, P.C., Attorneys at Law |
Retired
Circuit Judge Dan Reynolds
Hoover, AL |
Stephen
Glassroth
Esquire, Glassroth & Van Heest, P.C., Attorneys at Law |
Honorable
Diane Harris
Sheriff, Butler County |
Honorable
William M. Bowen, Jr.
White, Dunn and Booker, Attorneys at Law |
Carolyn
Flack
District Supervisor, Board of Pardons and Paroles |
Betty
Teague
Director, Central Records, Alabama Department of Corrections |
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Mandatory Minimum and Enhanced
Sentences Work Group
The purpose of the Mandatory Minimum and Enhanced
Sentences Work Group was to assist the Sentencing Commission by
examining Alabama's mandatory minimum and enhanced punishment statutes,
data reflecting the impact of their adoption on the prison population
and sentencing disparity, and the purposes for which they were adopted,
in order to make recommendations to the Commission as to their
retention, revision and/or elimination.
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Mandatory
Minimum & Enhanced Sentences Work Group |
Honorable
O. L. (Pete) Johnson, Chairman
District Judge, Jefferson |
Rosa
Davis
Esquire, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney
General |
Mike
Haley
Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Lynda
Flynt
Executive Director, Alabama Sentencing Commission |
Honorable
David Rains
Circuit Judge, 9th Judicial Circuit |
Stan
Batemon
Chairman, St. Clair County Commission |
Honorable
Tommy Nail
Circuit Judge, 10th Judicial Circuit |
Tom
Sorrells
Executive Director, Alabama District Attorneys Association |
Richard
K. Keith
Esquire, Keith & Hamm, P.C., Attorneys at Law |
Honorable
Russell Thomas
Sheriff, Pike County |
Doris
Dease
Crime Victims Compensation Commission |
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Community-Based Punishment
Work Group
The Community-Based
Punishment Work Group was established to assist the Alabama Sentencing
Commission by reviewing and evaluating existing community based
punishment programs in Alabama and in other states; reviewing current
statutes to ensure that alternative sanctions and programs are
authorized statewide and exploring effective means to implement
community correction programs statewide, addressing such issues as
funding, training, risk-assessment tools and the ways in which to
acquire community support.
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Community-Based
Punishment Work Group |
Dr.
Jim Merk, Chairman
J. F. Ingram Technical College |
Honorable
Samuel L. Jones
Mobile County Commissioner |
Honorable
Marcel Black
Chair, House Judiciary Committee |
Joe
A. Mahoney
Director, Mobile County Community Corrections |
Kent
Hunt
Assistant Commissioner for Substance Abuse, Department of Mental Health |
Lou
Harris
D. P. A., Faulkner University |
Richard
Lawrence
Esquire, Attorney at Law, Montgomery, AL |
Honorable
Tim W. Morgan
Madison County District Attorney |
Ralph
Hendrix
UAB Treatment Alternatives to Street Crime |
Honorable
Harold L. Crow
Presiding Judge, 1st Judicial Circuit |
Honorable
Jacob Walker III
Presiding Judge, 37th Judicial Circuit |
Angelo
V. Trimble
Alabama Coalition Against Domestic Violence |
Cynthia
S. Dillard
Assistant Executive Director of Field Services, Board of Pardons &
Paroles |
Honorable
O. H. Edward McFerrin
Presiding Circuit Judge, 2nd Judicial Circuit |
Honorable
Ron Jackson
District Judge, Shelby County |
Chris
Retan
Director, Aletheia House |
John
Rice
Court Referral Officer, Ft. Payne, AL |
Bill
Curtis
District Supervisor, Board of Pardons & Paroles |
Roger
Brown
Chief Deputy District Attorney, Jefferson County District Attorney's
Office |
Jim
Cary
Director, Etowah County Commissioner Punishment and Corrections
Authority, Inc. |
Larry
Haverland
Administrator, Montgomery County Jail |
James
Herbie Johnson
Sheriff, Autauga County |
Mary
Pons
Legal Counsel, Association of County Commissions |
Beth
Upshaw
Unified Family Court & Court Referral Officers Program,
Administrative Office of Courts |
Martha
White
Board of Pardons & Paroles |
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Truth-in-Sentencing &
Post-Incarceration Supervision Work Group
The Truth-in-Sentencing & Post
Incarceration Supervision Work Group was established to assist the
Alabama Sentencing Commission by reviewing and evaluating existing
sentencing structures to determine if truth-in-sentencing
exist.
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Truth-in-Sentencing
& Post-Incarceration Supervision Work Group |
Honorable
P.B. McLauchlin, Chairman
Presiding Circuit Judge, 33rd Judicial Circuit |
Edward
A. "Ted" Hosp
Esquire, Legal Advisor to the Governor |
Marty
Ramsay
Crime Victims Compensation Commission |
Emily
Landers
Deputy Director of Constituent Services, Governor's Office |
Michael
D. Godwin
District Attorney, Escambia County |
Courtney
Tarver
Legal Counsel, Department of Mental Health |
Don
Parker
Executive Director, Board of Pardons and Paroles |
Ken
Tucker
Commissioner, Marengo County Commission |
James
Fry
Department of Economic & Community Affairs |
Honorable
John England
Circuit Judge, 6th Judicial Circuit |
Honorable
Henry Blizzard
Retired Circuit Judge |
David
B. Byrne Jr.
Esquire, Capell & Howard, P. C., Attorneys at Law |
Honorable
Randall L. Cole
Presiding Circuit Judge, 9th Judicial Circuit |
Mark
J. Christensen
Esquire, Andalusia, AL |
Honorable
Jay Jones
Sheriff, Lee County |
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