SB87 - Alabama Medical Parole Act Summary

• Establishes a special medical parole docket allowing the Board of Pardons and Paroles to consider parole for geriatric inmates (age 60+), permanently incapacitated inmates, and terminally ill inmates who pose low risk to the community.

• Requires the Department of Corrections to annually identify by January 1 all inmates who spent 30+ days in an infirmary in the prior year or received costly/frequent outside medical treatment, and provide this list to the parole board.

• Prohibits medical parole eligibility for inmates convicted of capital murder or sex offenses and requires open public hearings for all medical parole considerations.

• Board must consider risk for violence, criminal history, institutional behavior, age, severity of illness, medical records, and reentry plans when determining medical parole eligibility.

• Requires the board to annually report to legislative committees on the number of medical paroles granted and denied, nature of illnesses, and crimes involved, while protecting individual inmate privacy under HIPAA compliance.