Court dockets are packed and riddled with names.
Some of those names are repeat offenders and 19th Judicial Circuit District Attorney C.J. Robinson said the Prison Reform Act of 2015 passed by the Alabama legislature has tied the hands of law enforcement, prosecutors and judges. Robinson said the 2015 legislation to control the prison population is “a failed experiment.”
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