23rd October 2013
The Minister for Justice has published the Annual Report for 2012 of the Parole Board.
The report details the number of cases reviewed; the number of prison interviews held; the number of recommendations made to the Minister that were accepted/rejected, and more.
Of 66 prisoner cases referred to the Board for review during 2012, 44 prisoners accepted the invitation to participate, and 17 (just over 25% declined); 5 invitations to participate were not determined.
Recommendations were sent to the Minister for Justice and Equality in 91 of the cases reviewed. The recommendations in 57 cases were accepted in full by the Minister; two recommendations were not accepted; five cases were accepted conditionally or in part. At the end of the year there were 27 decisions still pending.
IPRT Response:
IPRT Position:
In October 2012, IPRT published theIPRT Position Paper 9: Reform of Remission, Temporary Release and Parole which called on a number of reforms, including: for an independent statutory Parole Board to be established and to take over decision-making on the release of life-sentenced and long-sentenced prisoners. Our recommendations included:
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