Electronic Version - Vol. 1 No. 8 - 2006-05-31

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
   
   • 1.1 - Mission
     • Mission Statement of the National Parole Board
     • Core value 1
     • Core value 2
     • Core value 3
     • Core value 4
       
       
   • 1.2 - Conditional Release Decision Making
     • Purpose
     • Introduction
     • Information Standards
2. General
   
   
   • 2.1 - Assessment for Pre-Release Decisions - Decision-Making Criteria and Process
     • Authority
     • Purpose
     • Introduction
     • Review process
       • Assessing Criminal and Social History
       • Assessing Institutional Behaviour and the Results of Interventions
       • Assessing the Release Plan and Community Management Strategies
     • Decision and Reasons
     • Cross reference
     • Implementation date
       
       
   • 2.1.1 Offenders with an Indeterminate Sentence and Dangerous Sexual Offenders
     • Legislative reference
     • Purpose
     • Background
     • Duty of the Board
     • In addition to the required pre-release criteria
     • Implementation Date
       
       
   • 2.2 Hallmarks of Quality Decision Making
     • Purpose
     • Introduction
     • Hallmarks
     • Implementation Date
       
       
   • 2.3 Psychological and Psychiatric Assessments
     • Purpose
     • Psychological Assessments
       
       • A. Intake psychological assessments
       • B. Pre-release psychological assessments
     • Psychiatric assessments
     • Exceptions
     • Effective date
       
       
   • 2.4 Elgibilities
     
     
3. Temporary Absence
   
   
   • 3.1 - Unescorted Temporary Absence
     • Legislative references
     • Decision-making criteria and factors
       • Personal development for rehabilitative purposes
       • Assessment purposes
       • Group activities
       • Supervision
     • Further conditional releases
     • Period in custody between UTA's
     • Delegation of UTA authority to Institutional Heads
     • Cross reference
     • Implementation date
       
       
   • 3.2 - Escorted Temporary Absence - Offenders Serving Life or Indeterminate Sentences
     • Legislative references
     • National Parole Board interventions
     • Approval
     • Decision-making criteria
     • Group activities
     • Escorts
     • Cross reference
     • Implementation date
     
     
4. Parole
   
   
   • 4.1 - Day Parole
     • Legislative references
     • Preamble
       • Duration of day parole
       • Day parole eligibility more than one year before parole eligibility date
     • Day parole for foreign nationals
       • Factors to be considered
       • Decision documentation
     • Conditions of release
     • Leave privileges
       • Expanded periods of leave
       • Documenting leave and expanded leave
       • Emergency medical and compassionate leave
       • Modifications to authorized leave
       • Day parole to a private home
     • Cross reference
     • Implementation date
       
       
   • 4.2 - Full Parole
     • Legislative references
     • Criteria for release on full parole
     • Parole by exception
     • Cross-reference
     • Implementation date
       
       
   • 4.3 - Accelerated Review
     • Legislative references
     • Proper referral
     • Decision-making criteria and process
       • Factors for assessing the risk of reoffending with violence
       • Assessing the risk of non-violent reoffending and the imposition of release conditions
     • Accelerated review hearing
     • Cross reference
     • Effective date
       
       
   • 4.4 - Deportation/Extradition/Voluntary Departure
     
     • Reference
     • Purpose
     • General
     • Deportation
     • Extradition
     • Voluntary departure
     • Offender consent to parole
     • Effective date of parole
     • Release conditions
     • Cross reference
     • Effective date
       
       
5. Statutory Release
   
   
   • Legislative references
   • Special conditions with respect to statutory release
   • Imposing a residency condition on statutory release
     • Referral
     • Board review - pre-release hearing
     • Board review - post-release hearing
     • Quorum
     • Post-release hearings and new statutory release date within 6 months
     • Factors for assessing the risk of committing a violent offence
     • Decision to impose a residency condition
     • Duration of a condition to reside
     • Residential conditions following a period of detention or a detention referral
     • Residency in psychiatric facilities
     • Private home
   • Leave privileges
     • Expanded periods of leave
     • Emergency medical and compassionate leave
   • Decision documentation
     • Documenting leave and expanded leave
   • Cross Reference
   • Implementation Date
     
     
     
6. Detention
   
   
   • Legislative References
   • Referrals
     • Proper referral
     • Withdrawal of referral
   • Hearings
     • Interim hearing
     • Detention hearing
     • Procedural safeguards
     • Postponements
   • Factors to be considered
     • Determining serious harm
   • Decision options
     • 1. Detention
     • 2. Statutory release
     • 3. One-chance statutory release
   • Reviews of detention orders
   • Residency condition following a period of detention
     • Community access
     • Appropriateness of treatment centres and institutions as residential facilities
     • Compliance with rules and regulations
   • Reviews of residency orders
   • Review following an additional sentence
   • Cross references
   • Implementation date
   • Appendix I - Guidelines for the assessment of the psychological damage aspect of serious harm
     • Clinical Definition of Serious Harm
     • Diagnostic Criteria for PTSD
     • Distinctions Between Severe and Moderate Psychological Symptoms
     • Documentary Sources for Assessing Severe Psychological Damage
     • Steps to Assess Severe Psychological Damage
     • Factors Associated with Severe Psychological Damage
     • Assessing Whether the Victim Suffered Severe Psychological Damage Based on Offence and Victim Characteristics
     • Likelihood of cases being associated with severe psychological damage
     
     
     
7. Release Conditions
   
   
   • 7.1 - Release Conditions
     • Legislative reference
     • Purpose
     • Special conditions
       • General
       • Immediate risk to the community
       • Factors to consider when imposing or altering special conditions
     • Post-release
     • Violation of a special condition
     • Altering conditions prescribed by the regulations
     • Out-of-country travel
       • General
       • Criteria for review of out-of-country travel
     • Decision documentation
     • Cross Reference
     • Implementation Date
       
       
   • 7.2 - Residency and Day Parole Leave Privileges
     • Weekday
     • Weekend
     • Leave for special celebrations
     • Cross-References
     • Effective date
     
     
     
8. Post Release Interventions
   
   
   • 8.1 - Post Release Interventions
     • Legislative reference
     • Purpose
       • Introduction
     • Assessment of risk factors during the period of supervision
     • Remedial action
       • Reprimand
       • Delay the effect of cancellation
     • Decision and Reasons
     • Cross reference
     • Implementation date
       
       
   • 8.2 - Recredit of Remission
     • Legislative reference
     • Purpose
     • Policies
     • Implementation date
       
       
   • 8.3 - Offenders with a Long-Term Supervision Order
     
     • Legislative reference
     • Purpose
     • Release Conditions and Information Sharing with the Offender
     • Suspension of long-term supervision
     • Hearings
     • Quorum
     • Records Management
     • Cross references
     • Implementation date
       
       
9. Hearings and Reviews
   
   
   • 9.1 - Reviews
     • Legislative reference
     • Purpose
     • Policy
     • Cross references
     • Effective date
       
       
   • 9.2 - Hearings
     • Legislative reference
     • General
     • Hearing - discretionary
     • Hearings by telephone
       • Criteria for conducting hearings by telephone
     • Offenders serving less than 2 years - Hearings / Quorum
     • Procedural safeguards
     • Confidential information
     • New information on criminal activity
     • Who attends the hearing
     • Presence of Board members/staff during the deliberation part of the hearing process for training purposes
     • Cross references
     • Effective date
       
       
   • 9.2.1-Cultural Hearings
     • Hearings with an Aboriginal Cultural Advisor
     • Legislative references
     • Purpose
     • The Aboriginal Cultural Advisor
     • Hearing Participants
     • The Hearing
     • Cross References
     • Implementation Date
       
       
   • 9.3 - Observers at Hearings
     • Legislative reference
     • Purpose
     • Definition
     • General
     • Authorization to attend a hearing
     • Conditions governing observers
       • Media requests for attendance at hearings
     • Provision of an explanation
     • Notification to the offender
     • Cross references
     • Effective date
       
       
   • 9.4 - Assistants at Hearings
     • Legislative reference
     • Purpose
     • Role of the Assistant
     • Arrangements and expenses
     • Number of assistants allowed
     • Assistant not available
     • Cross references
     • Effective date
       
       
   • 9.5 - Interpreters
     • Legislative reference
     • Purpose
     • Arrangements and expenses
     • Impartiality of the Interpreter
     • Interpreter not available
     • Recording of the Decision
     • Cross references
     • Implementation date
       
       
   • 9.6 - Adjournments
     • Legislative reference
     • Purpose
     • Definition
     • Day parole, full parole and UTA reviews
       • a) Additional information
       • b) Further time
       • c) Completing the review
     • Number of assistants allowed
     • Assistant not available
     • Detention review
     • Post-suspension review
     • Cross references
     • Effective date
       
       
   • 9.7 - Waiver of Review or Hearing
     • Legislative reference
     • Purpose
     • General
     • Refusal to sign standard waiver form
     • Refusal to attend a hearing
     • Cross references
     • Effective date
       
       
   • 9.8 - Postponement of Review
     • Legislative reference
     • Purpose
     • General
     • Last minute postponements
     • Cross references
     • Effective date
       
       
   • 9.9 - Scheduling of Board Members for Reviews
     • Purpose
     • General
     • Policy
     • Implementation date
       
       
     
     
10. Disclosure of Information
    
    
    • 10.1 - Disclosure to Offender
      • Legislative reference
      • Purpose
      • Disclosure to offenders
      • Exception
      • Process for sharing
        • Photographs and videos
      • Last minute postponements
      • Information to Assistants
      • Cross references
      • Effective date
        
        
    • 10.2 - Disclosure to Victims
      • Legislative reference
      • Preamble
      • Entitlement to information
      • Agent
      • Boards of Investigation
      • Authority for disclosure
      • Information which may be disclosed
      • Notification of continuing interest
      • Documentation of information given to victims
      • Other requests for information
      • Cross- References
      • Effective date
        
        
    • 10.3 - Information from Victims
      • Legislative reference
      • Preamble
      • Purpose
      • Presentation of victim statements at hearings
        • Definition of "victim"
        • Policy
      • Information from victims
      • Information sharing requirements
      • Giving information to the Board or other correctional authorities
      • Cross- References
      • Effective date
        
        
11. Records of Reviews and Decisions
    
    
    • 11.1 - Records of Proceedings
      • Legislative reference
      • Records of decisions and hearing proceedings
        • Records of decisions
        • Voice recordings of hearings
        • Retention of hearing tapes
        • Offender's access to voice recorded proceedings
        • CSC access to voice recorded proceedings
      • Cross references
      • Implementation date
        
        
    • 11.2 - Registry of Decisions
      • Authority
      • Purpose
      • Policy
        • Content of the decision registry
        • Specific case access to the decision registry
        • Access to persons who demonstrate an interest in a case
        • Access for research purposes
      • Cross references
      • Implementation date
        
        
12. Appeals
    
    
    • 12 - Appeals
      • Legislative reference
      • Purpose
      • Principles
      • Advising the offender of the right to appeal
      • Grounds for appeal
        • Explanation of grounds for appeal
      • Frivolous and vexatious appeals (147.(2)(a) CCRA)
      • Time limitations (147.(2)(d) CCRA & s. 168 Regulations)
      • Conduct of appeals
      • Notification of decision to release
      • Implementation of decisions rendered by the Appeal division
      • Communication of decisions
      • Effective date
        
        
13. Miscellaneous
    
    
    • 13.1 - Communicable Diseases/Aids
      • Authority
      • Purpose
      • Policy
      • Cross reference
      • Implementation date
        
        
    • 13.2 - Prohibition From Driving
      • Authority
      • Purpose
      • Background
      • Policy
      • Applications
      • Voting
      • Cross reference
      • Effective date
        
        
14. Clemency and Pardons
    
    
    • 14.1 - Pardons
      • Legislative Reference
      • Preamble
      • Purpose
      • Policy
        • Good Conduct
        • Guidelines for Assessing Good Conduct
        • Revocation of a pardon based on subsequent conviction for offence punishable on summary conviction
      • Voting Requirements
      • Reviews where there may be representatives by or on behalf of applicants
        • Guidelines for determining whether to hold a hearing
      • Implementation Date
        
        
    • 14.2 - Royal Prerogative of Mercy
      • Legislative reference
      • Background
      • Purpose
      • Authority and power
        • Governor General of Canada - Letters Patent
        • Governor in Council - Criminal Code
      • Principles guiding the exercise of clemency
        • 1. There must be evidence of substantial injustice or undue hardship
        • 2. The exercise of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy is concerned solely with the applicant
        • 3. The exercise of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy is not intended to circumvent other existing legislation
        • 4. The independence of the judiciary shall be respected
        • 5. The Royal Prerogative of Mercy should be applied in exceptional circumstances only
        • 6. The exercise of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy, by its very nature, should not result in an increased penalty
      • Specific remedies and criteria
        • 1. Free Pardon
        • 2. Conditional Pardon - prior to eligibility under the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (CCRA)
        • 3. Conditional Pardon - in advance of eligibility under the Criminal Records Act (CRA)
        • 4. Remission of sentence
        • 5. Remission of fine, forfeiture, estreated bails and pecuniary penalties
        • 6. Respite
        • 7. Relief from prohibitions
      • Cancellation of a remedy
        
        
    • 14.3 - Interview Guidelines for Clemency and Pardons
      • Authority
      • Purpose
      • Background
      • Guidelines for interviews
      • Cross reference
        
        
15. Annex A - Amendments to NPB Policy Manual
    • Electronic Version - Vol. 1 No. 5
    • Electronic Version - Vol. 1 No. 6 (amendments to Vol. 1 No 5)
    • Electronic Version - Vol. 1 No. 7 (amendments to Vol. 1 No 6)
    • Electronic Version - Vol. 1 No. 7A (amendments to Vol. 1 No 7)
    • Electronic Version - Vol. 1 No. 7B
    • Electronic Version - Vol. 1 No. 8