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Question 1

What is a conditional release?

Answer 1

Means of leaving a correctional institution before warrant expiry where offender is subject to conditions that if breached triggers revocation and return to prison

Question 2

What are the attributes of probation?

Answer 2

Ordered by a judge at sentencing, up to 3 years, violations doesn’t automatically lead to incarceration (a new charge is laid)

Question 3

What are the attributes of parole?

Answer 3

Granted by parole board, allows proportion of sentence to be served in the community, begins with release ends at warrant expiry date, violations may result in revocation of parole

Question 4

What are the only two provinces with provincial parole boards?

Answer 4

Quebec and Ontario

Question 5

What is the purpose of conditional release?

Answer 5

To maintain a just, peaceful, and safe society by the decision on timing and conditions of release to help offenders reintegrate into the community as law-abiding citizens

Question 6

What are the conditions of parole?

Answer 6

Offender will not be reoffending or present risk to society and offender is a law-abiding citizen

Question 7

What are the three points in a sentence where an offender can be released?

Answer 7

Parole eligibility date (day or full parole), statuary release date (2/3 point in a sentence), warrant expiry date (end of sentence)

Question 8

What is cold turkey release?

Answer 8

Discharge from custody without conditions or supervision

Question 9

What are the 4 release options?

Answer 9

Temporary absence (escorted and unescorted), day parole, full parole, statutory release

Question 10

What is a release plan?

Answer 10

A plan that sets out the residential, educational, and treatment arrangements made for an inmate who is applying for conditional release

Question 11

What is the community assessment?

Answer 11

An evaluation of the feasibility of the release plan, the level of supervision required, and the availability of community resources

Question 12

What are the issues in parole board decision making?

Answer 12

Boards may be subject to influence, lack of feedback about results of decision, absence of clarity

Question 13

What is reintegration?

Answer 13

A process where an inmate is prepared for release into the community to avoid reoffending

Question 14

What are the pains of re-entry for offenders?

Answer 14

Everything is fast paced and unpredictable filled with choices, employment, housing, education, and require access to programs and services

Question 15

What are the criminogenic needs of offenders?

Answer 15

Community functioning, employment, family, personal and emotional, associates, substance abuse, attitudes

Question 16

What are the predictors of success for released inmate?

Answer 16

Support network, stable housing, employment, participation in treatment, decision to be pro social, demographics

Question 17

What is the suspension of conditional release?

Answer 17

A result of a case whereby the parolee failed to abide by the conditions of release

Question 18

What is the revocation of conditional release?

Answer 18

A decision made as a result of an offender whose conditional release has been suspended

Question 19

What is a circle of support and accountability?

Answer 19

Community-based committees composed of criminal justice personnel and community members that provide mentoring for high-risk sex offenders whose sentences have expired