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Parole granted to Curtis Bailey with 18-month placement and treatment conditions
Summary
The Committee on Parole granted parole to Curtis Bailey with an 18-month placement at Servant Heart International Outreach and added substance-abuse and supervision conditions after hearing supportive testimony and opposition from the DA’s office.
The Committee on Parole granted parole to Curtis Bailey after a hearing in Baton Rouge, subject to an 18-month placement with Servant Heart International Outreach and a set of supervision and treatment conditions.
Curtis Bailey told the board he accepted responsibility for past conduct and expressed remorse. “I am very sorry for and remorseful for the thing in my bad decision I had made when I was in society,” he told the panel, describing a desire to do outreach and work with youth once released.
Detrice Smith Jones, executive director of Servant Heart International Outreach, described a reentry plan that includes guaranteed housing, employment placement and case management: “We...have a job that’s ready for him when he comes home, and we also have housing that’s ready,” she said. Several mentors and formerly incarcerated men also testified in support, offering to provide housing and mentoring.
The assistant district attorney, Randall Meyer, strongly opposed parole, citing Bailey’s lengthy criminal history, repeated supervision failures and prior revocations. Meyer told the board Bailey had been revoked previously after parole and cited prior sentences and disciplinary reports.
After reviewing the record and hearing testimony from supporters, the board’s assigned member, Chuck Tillis, cast the first vote to grant parole with the 18-month placement at Servant Heart. Another panel member concurred and proposed additional conditions. The committee’s final conditions included an 18-month stay at Servant Heart International Outreach, weekly NA/AA meetings, completion of an external substance-abuse evaluation and treatment as recommended, one day per month of community service, and a one-year residence requirement with a named mentor (Dwayne Rodriguez) after the 18 months. The chair summarized the motion and the vote to grant.
The board emphasized the limited margin for error: panel members warned Bailey that any future violation would likely result in return to custody for the balance of his sentence.
The committee assigned supervision conditions and follow-up tasks to the Department of Corrections and the community reentry provider to coordinate housing, treatment and reporting.
