Blount County District Attorney Pamela Casey said she is livid that a man convicted of murder has been released from prison without an ankle monitor.

Barry Randall Thomas, 56, pleaded guilty in 1994 to the murder of his brother. He was sentenced to 30 years for that killing and for threatening to kill someone else.

Thomas’s sentence was set to end Aug. 25, but he was released Tuesday after the state’s new “mandatory supervision period on certain sentences” law was enacted, leading to a mass early release of inmates.

The Alabama Department of Corrections on Thursday said 134 inmates have already been released. About 170-200 will be released Friday.

The inmates are under the supervision of the Alabama Board of Pardons and Parole, and are subject to electronic monitoring.

The law sets predetermined periods of time for the person to remain on monitoring, but the ABPP supervision must end the day the person’s prison sentence ends.

Casey, who has been vocal against the law since it was passed in 2021, lashed out at state officials Thursday via Facebook Live.

She said learned from Pardons and Paroles that Thomas was released to a halfway house without an ankle monitor.

“They said he’s considered low risk,’’ Casey said. “I guess murder is not something significant that you are to be watched for.”

“Murderers are being taken off their ankle monitor,’’ she said. “They don’t know where they are.”

“This is insane,’’ Casey said. “Don’t act like you’ve got everything under control and you’re monitoring these people when you’re not.”

Casey urged people to call the office of Gov. Kay Ivey. “Tell them this early release is crap and they’ve got to put the ankle monitor back on Barry Thomas,’’ she said.

Thomas’s ex-wife filed a restraining order against Thomas this week after learning about his impending release.

“He has told me he would kill me, kill my children and my family,’’ she wrote in the request.

Alabama Pardons and Paroles Director Cam Ward said he is looking into what is going on.

It appears Thomas had a low risk assessment.

“But I have a policy personally if you’re a murderer or rapist, you’ve got to be monitored,” he said.

Ward said he was just made aware of the Thomas case and is checking to make sure that he is monitored. “I’ll get it fixed,” he said.

Ward said Thomas is expected to receive an ankle monitor Thursday night.

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