Bartlett and Flanagan granted parole

MONTGOMERY - The Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles granted parole Wednesday, Feb. 19, to two inmates with Winston County ties.

Shannon Joey Bartlett and Randy O'Neal Flanagan were both granted parole.  Bartlett was sentenced in 2018 to five years in prison on one count of possession of a Class D controlled substance, as well as another count of the same charge to be served concurrently.  In 2019, he was sentenced to eight years in prison on an escape conviction, with that sentence to be served concurrently with his initial 2018 conviction and sentence.

Flanagan was sentenced in 2018 on a possession of a Class D controlled substance conviction to eight years in prison.