By DON FLETCHER
News Staff Writer
Alabama Board of Pardons & Paroles members denied parole for an East Brewton woman who was convicted in 2020 of allowing several men to have sex with a 12-year-old girl and a 14-year-old girl who were under her care.
The board also rejected parole for a Flomaton man serving a life sentence and another man who was convicted on a charge of trying to smuggle an illicit substance into a state prison.
Kimberly Munsey Kelley
East Brewton police arrested Kelley after an investigation into reports she allowed the youngsters to participate in sex acts at least twice each with two adult men and a juvenile, each of whom was also arrested.
East Brewton police, who initially charged the woman with six counts of rape and each of the males with two counts of rape, reported at the time that the situation apparently didn’t involve money, just “bad judgment” on Kelley’s part.
She has served just a few days more than 3 years of the 20-year sentence she received for an unspecified “Class B felony against a person.” She also received a 20-year sentence for one count of second-degree rape and 15 years for violation of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), but those sentences are running concurrently with the Class B felony sentence.
Currently housed at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women Annex, her minimum release date without parole or a pardon is May 1, 2038.
Johnny Jermaine Johnson
A Flomaton man who was sentenced to life in prison after he escaped from Community Corrections and avoided recapture for about three hours in 2016, was denied parole during recent hearings by the Alabama Board of Pardons & Paroles.
Johnny Jermaine Johnson, who was sentenced to Community Corrections after a guilty plea to one count of second-degree burglary and two counts of first-degree marijuana possession, was finally taken back into custody near the junction of Fannie Church Road and U.S. 31, just east of Flomaton.
He was eventually sentenced to 20 years on the burglary charge and received a concurrent sentence of 10 years each on the pot possession charges. He was also sentenced to life with the possibility of parole for the escape, a sentence that can be handed down if an escapee has been convicted of a felony.
Johnson, who is currently housed at Elmore Correctional Facility, was given credit for more than four years (1,474 days) he spent in jail on the marijuana convictions before being sentenced and transferred to state custody, and 1,080 days of jail time on the burglary charge.
Without a pardon or parole, Johnson will remain in prison for the rest of his life.
Jim Jones Smith
Smith was sentenced in 2018 to serve 20 years after his conviction on attempting to commit a controlled substance crime. He was given a concurrent sentence of 15 years for “Other Class C felony.” He has served not-quite-7 years.
Smith had served two stints in prison prior to his Escambia County conviction. He served almost every day of a 3-year sentence after a 2002 Montgomery County conviction for discharging a firearm into an occupied building or vehicle and used 10 months of “good time” to complete a 3-year sentence he received in 1996 from Autauga County.
The inmate is currently housed at North Alabama Community Work Center.