Parole Board Guidelines 2015

Regulation Authority:

R.I. Gen. Laws § 13-8-14.1

Purpose and Reason:

The Parole Board proposes to repeal the currently effective “Parole Board Guidelines 2015” and adopt in its place a new regulation entitled “2017 Standards for Parole,” 242-RICR-00-00-1. The proposed 2017 regulations make several stylistic and formatting changes that summarize preexisting standards without altering the meaning. The proposed regulations add a definition section (§ 1.3) which will help the reader better understand frequently used terms throughout the document. In December 2016, the Parole Board adopted new scoring cuts for its validated risk assessment instrument as well as a updated offense severity/risk matrix and this has been included in these regulations in section § 1.5(B)(4) with additional explanation on how to read the matrix. There are also two new sections, § 1.5(C) Aggravating Factors and § 1.5(D) Mitigating Factors, which condenses factors previously included under section 2.02 OTHER MAJOR CRITERIA. In response to two public comments received the Parole Board voted and made the recommended changes to the regulation. First modification can be found in section 1.7 originally read "OTHERWISE CONTROLLING THE SUPERVISION OF PAROLEES" and was changed to "OTHER MATTERS RELATED TO THE SUPERVISION OF PAROLEES". The last modification was made to section 1.4 b where we added on the 4th line "/property owner".