Sunday, April 13, 2014

What Does "Parole" Actually Mean?

The way parole works in Orange County California


In the field of criminal justice, there is a term referred as parole. Parole is term used to describe criminal offenders who are released from the prison on condition that they will serve the remaining part of their sentence out of prison. Criminal offenders released under this program are known as parolees. In most cases people confuse parole with probation. There is a big difference between these two terms. Parole refers to early release of a criminal offender from prison while probation is the supervision of a convicted criminal not imprisoned. Criminal offenders can be released to parole by a California parole board decision i.e. discretionary parole/discretionary release, or agreeing to provisions of a statute i.e. mandatory parole/mandatory release. Therefore, the description of parole is not regulated to only criminal offenders who are released through parole board decision but also to the criminal offenders released on provisions of a statute. Factors that can influence early release from prison include good behavior and humanitarian efforts. In some countries, a criminal offender may be released to seek medical care that cannot be provided within the prison. This kind of parole is referred as medical parole. In Orange County, there will be a local parole officer that needs to be kept up-to-date about the activities of the offender. Although a Newport Beach bail bonds agent may have been the contact person BEFORE the criminal trial, it is now the parole officer that is the contact person. Parolees have different supervision statuses that include active supervision. This means they are supposed to report on regular basis to a parole authority either in person, by telephone or by mail. Others can be on inactive status; this means they are not supposed to report on regular basis due to various reasons. For example, some parolees might receive a bargain in supervision because of achieving all needed conditions before the parole sentence ends, and therefore they are promoted from an active status to inactive status. There are other supervision statues such as: parolee with financial problems and it’s the only condition remaining, parolee having active warrants, or parolee having absconded. All parolees are usually required to comply with several conditions and follow certain rules of conduct after being released. Failure to fulfill any of the given rules and conditions can make the parolee return back to prison. If this happens they may not be able to use a Santa Ana bail bonds company.

5 comments:

  1. I agree. Lots of confusion or wrong thinking with how parole works for our Las Vegas bail bonds clients too. Thank you for shedding light. The more solid info out there in circulation, the better.

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  2. I have always wondered how this whole process works. We have been talking to bail bond agents but I will need to contact the parole officer soon. I just don't know how we got in this situation in the first place.

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  3. Yeah some family members of inmates I'm trying to bail out of jail in Las Vegas don't quite understand that although technically their loved one has a high level of freedom on the outside, he or she is still "serving their sentence." Albeit free to the naked eye, but far from it in truth. Their right to freedom is not nearly as firm as yours or mine.

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  4. Parole is a term that is thrown around a lot when it comes to criminals. I did not realize it could be used in more then one kind of case. If someone worked for a bail bond company they would probably see that term a lot.
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