The Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles plans to offer a residential rehabilitation facility for women like the Perry County Probation and Parole Reentry Education Program (PREP) Center.

Crews are preparing a site in Thomasville expected to host an initial cohort of 20 women on parole. The facility, known as the Central Alabama Re-Entry (CARE) Center, is expected to open next spring.

“The CARE Center is going to do nothing but cater to women who have come out on parole and probation,” said Cam Ward, director of the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles (ABPP), in an interview on Wednesday. “We will provide drug treatment, mental health treatment, and job training.”

The center comes from SB 5 , sponsored by Sen. Linda Coleman-Madison, D-Birmingham and passed in 2023, that directed

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