SEVEN DAY FORECAST. CHERI AND JASON, THANKS. FOR MORE INMATES FREE TONIGHT ACROSS ALABAMA AS PART OF THE STATE’S EARLY RELEASE PROGRAM. AND THE STATE LAW WENT INTO EFFECT TUESDAY AND ISN’T BEING RECEIVED WELL BY PROSECUTORS, INCLUDING JEFFERSON COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY DANNY CARR. MAINLY BECAUSE MANY VICTIMS WEREN’T NOTIFIED UNLESS THEY GOT A LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE SENTENCE. AT SOME POINT, THEY’RE GOING TO BE RELEASED. GROWING CONCERNS AS THE ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS RELEASES MORE INMATES UNDER A NEW STATE LAW. THE AMENDED LAW PASSED LAST YEAR ALLOWS PRISONERS TO BE RELEASED BETWEEN THREE AND 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE END OF THEIR SENTENCES. THEY INCLUDE CONVICTION FOR DRUG POSSESSION UP TO MURDER. AND THEN THE QUESTION BECOMES, WHAT’S THE PROCEDURE? JEFFERSON COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY DANNY CARR, ONE OF THOSE QUESTIONING THE PROCESS. WHAT’S NEXT ONCE INMATES ARE RELEASED? AND WHAT ABOUT THE VICTIMS? A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMUNITY, WHAT IS POLICE? WHAT IS THE DA’S OFFICE, WHOEVER IT IS, ARE VERY CONCERNED BECAUSE THERE WAS NO NOTICE. NOBODY KNEW. AND THEN THE MANNER WAS WHICH HAD BEEN RELEASED SO MANY AT ONE TIME. THE INMATES ANSWERED, POSED TO GET OUT UNTIL THE VICTIMS ARE TOLD. BUT EVEN AFTER NOTIFICATION, CARR SAYS, IT’S NOT EASY FOR THOSE FAMILIES, FAMILIES WHO HAVE BEEN VICTIMS OF VICTIMIZED BY VIOLENT CRIME, SUCH AS MYSELF. I LOST MY LITTLE BROTHER TO A HOMICIDE. IT NEVER GOES AWAY. IT STAYS WITH YOU. AND YOU ALWAYS WONDER WHAT YOU COULD HAVE DONE DIFFERENT. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, YOU ALWAYS WONDER, HAS THERE BEEN ENOUGH ACCOUNTABILITY? CARR BELIEVES THOSE WHO HAVE SERVED THEIR TIME DO DESERVE A SECOND CHANCE. BUT THERE NEEDS TO BE RESOURCES TO MAKE SURE THEY ARE NOT REPEAT OFFENDERS. WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE ARE PLANS IN PLACE FOR THESE INDIVIDUALS TO HAVE A CHANCE TO BE PRODUCTIVE AND NOT GET OUT AND RELY ON CRIMINAL ACTIVITY AGAIN. AND ONE WAY CARR SAYS THAT HAPPENS IS THROUGH EMPLOYMENT. HE’S PART OF THE SECOND CHANCE JOB FAIR. IT GIVES PEOPLE WHO ARE INCARCERATED JUST THAT A SECOND