What are Parole Decision Guidelines?
It is a carefully researched method of standardizing offenders’ confinement times based on crime severity and parole risk. Implemented in 1979 and revised several times since, the Parole Decision Guidelines is used to assist the Board in making consistent, soundly based, and understandable parole decisions on inmates serving non-life sentences. The offender’s likelihood of success on parole is measured by weighted factors concerning the offender’s criminal and social history which the Board has found to have value predicting the probability of further criminal behavior and successful adjustment under parole supervision.
