By DON FLETCHER
News Staff Writer
An Atmore man, convicted in 2023 of theft of property, was paroled after serving slightly more than two years of his prison sentence. The early release was granted during recent hearings by the Alabama Board of Pardons & Paroles.
Things didn’t go as well for an inmate who listed an Atmore address after his 2018 arrest, but a Flomaton address after three previous arrests, nor for a Flomaton man convicted of criminal mischief. Both were denied parole during recent hearings by the Alabama Board of Pardons & Paroles.
Brice Thunder Jackson
Jackson, who entered the state prison system in 2023 after his conviction on charges of first-degree theft and second-degree theft, was released after completing a state re-entry program.
The first-degree theft charge carried a 10-year sentence, as did the second charge, but the second-degree theft sentence was running concurrently with the first-degree charge.
Jackson was housed at Alabama Department of Corrections’ Pre-Therapeutic Community Program in Columbiana. The program provides treatment, educational opportunities and vocational training geared to meet the individual needs of inmates and prepare them for the transition from prison into the community.
Ashley Chandler
The board rejected a bid for early release by Ashley Chandler of Atmore, currently serving a 20-year sentence after a 2017 conviction for second-degree arson.
Chandler was also convicted of second-degree rape (20-year sentence), incest (15 years) and third-degree escape (10 years), but those sentences are running concurrently with the arson sentence.
Chandler, housed at William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility, has served almost seven years in prison. His minimum release date (without parole or a pardon) is October 10, 2037.
The Atmore man also served almost every day of a 5-year sentence he received in 2009 for arson, first-degree theft and escape.
Dale Lynn Carnley
Dale Lynn Carnley was convicted in 2015 of first-degree criminal mischief and spent four years in the county jail while awaiting sentencing and transfer to state officials.
Carnley and a friend, the live-in boyfriend of a local woman, picked the woman up and gave her a ride to her residence. They later attacked her to keep her from leaving after she discovered their true intentions.
Court documents show the pair also stole the woman’s Pontiac GTO and set it afire, justifying the first-degree criminal mischief charge. Such a charge can be levied only if damage of more than $2,500 was caused, or if the damage was due to an explosion.
Carnley was finally sent to state prison in 2019 and has served or been given credit for about 5-1/2 years, not counting time in the local jail.
Alabama Department of Corrections records show Carnley also served just under five years after his conviction in 2009 for attempting to commit a controlled substance crime and two counts of “Other Class C felony.” He also served just over five years after his 2001 conviction on a first-degree theft charge.
Currently housed at Bullock Correctional Facility, Carnley’s minimum release date without parole or a pardon is October 3, 2035.