The Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles held 31 parole hearings Thursday, granting eight paroles and denying 23. Six parole hearings were continued until September.
Among those denied parole were 19 inmates with convictions for violent crimes.
Editor’s Note: The list below contains the names of the inmates considered for parole Thursday, Aug. 20, along with their county or counties of conviction, a notice of whether the inmates have any convictions for violent crimes on their records, and the parole board’s decision. News organizations can go to the Alabama Department of Corrections inmate database and search by the AIS number listed below for details on the inmates’ records of offenses.
| Last Name | First, Middle | AIS# | Hearing Date | County/Counties of Conviction | Does the inmate have any convictions for violent crimes? | Parole Decision |
| Alexander | Wendall Avery | 320465 | 08/20/2020 | Shelby | No | Denied |
| Barron | Ernest Junior | 199201 | 08/20/2020 | Coffee, Geneva | Yes | Denied |
| Bibb | Matthew | 163249 | 08/20/2020 | Jefferson | No | Denied |
| Billingsley | Barry | 215669 | 08/20/2020 | Etowah | Yes | Continued |
| Black | Brian Alan | 155067 | 08/20/2020 | Tallapoosa, Coosa, Talladega, Clay | Yes | Denied |
| Broach | Tony Curtis | 136351 | 08/20/2020 | Houston | Yes | Denied |
| Brown | Anthony Lamar | 174826 | 08/20/2020 | Mobile, Covington | Yes | Denied |
| Cochran | Mark Harber | 189782 | 08/20/2020 | Marion, Jefferson, | Yes | Denied |
| Dowdell | Terry | 220883 | 08/20/2020 | Shelby, Barbour | Yes | Denied |
| Eatmon | Jamie Lee | 140565 | 08/20/2020 | Tuscaloosa | No | Denied |
| Ford | Cawthon Jr | 192168 | 08/20/2020 | Etowah, Jefferson, Baldwin | Yes | Granted |
| Frakes | Jason Ryan | 245593 | 08/20/2020 | Madison | No | Granted |
| Franklin | Harold Wesley | 198172 | 08/20/2020 | Montgomery | Yes | Continued |
| Goings | John Edward | 152353 | 08/20/2020 | Cullman, Jefferson | Yes | Denied |
| Griffin | Heath Allen | 303170 | 08/20/2020 | Limestone | No | Denied |
| Guy | Mark | 162613 | 08/20/2020 | Baldwin, Montgomery, Mobile | Yes | Denied |
| Hale | Billy | 173387 | 08/20/2020 | Morgan, Colbert | Yes | Denied |
| Hall | Tarus | 237249 | 08/20/2020 | Montgomery | Yes | Denied |
| Henley | Zachery Thomas | 321716 | 08/20/2020 | Coffee | No | Continued |
| Higginbotham | Johnny | 284386 | 08/20/2020 | Mobile | Yes | Granted |
| Irwin | Jackie Wayne | 118785 | 08/20/2020 | Winston, Marion | Yes | Denied |
| Johnson | David Eugene | 146571 | 08/20/2020 | Limestone | Yes | Denied |
| Kittrell | James Marvin | 163278 | 08/20/2020 | Marion, Lamar | Yes | Denied |
| Long | Willie Junior | 166075 | 08/20/2020 | Madison, Marshall | Yes | Denied |
| McKinney | Charles Edward J | 190015 | 08/20/2020 | DeKalb, Cherokee, Cullman | No | Granted |
| Miles | Adam Nathaniel | 245726 | 08/20/2020 | Montgomery, Russell | Yes | Denied |
| Morris | James Shawn | 244957 | 08/20/2020 | Lee, Russell | Yes | Denied |
| Osborne | Rickel Demond | 301322 | 08/20/2020 | Montgomery, Autauga | No | Continued |
| Parker | Justin Lee | 276798 | 08/20/2020 | St. Clair, Jefferson, Blount | Yes | Continued |
| Raney | Paige Marie | 311156 | 08/20/2020 | Baldwin | No | Granted |
| Smith | Traevis Arnez | 237446 | 08/20/2020 | Montgomery | Yes | Denied |
| Spinks | Tevin Dawayne | 323209 | 08/20/2020 | Henry | No | Continued |
| Stidham | Larry Dewayne | 153232 | 08/20/2020 | Marion, Winston | Yes | Denied |
| Wade | Michela Westmoreland | 216758 | 08/20/2020 | Cullman, Morgan | Yes | Granted |
| White | Dominic Laquess | 254459 | 08/20/2020 | Madison | Yes | Granted |
| Whitworth | Roger Keith | 210192 | 08/20/2020 | Madison | Yes | Denied |
| Wilemon | Thomas Wayne | 271568 | 08/20/2020 | Etowah | No | Granted |