Assistance

The Parole Board of SA

There are no hard and fast rules about what can be included in a victim’s submission. Your submission could include the following:

• If you have specific areas of concern (such as worry that the prisoner will try to contact you), you might request that certain locations or areas be noted in the conditions as restricted areas for the prisoner;

• You might have outstanding issues that you feel should be brought to the Board’s attention (for example, copies of Restraining Orders or other Family Court Orders that may be relevant); and

• You might mention continuing issues relating to the impact of the offence on you and your family.

Please note that the Parole Board cannot re-sentence the prisoner. The Parole Board’s role is to:

• Hear parole applications and decide whether a prisoner is released on parole;

• Set parole conditions;

• Monitor the progress of those on parole;

• Hear breaches of parole conditions and determine what action is to be taken; and,

• To undertake Prisoner Reviews.

If you want to make a submission you should write to the Secretary, Parole Board of South Australia, 181 Flinders Street , Adelaide , 5000. If you want to make a submission in-person, you should also contact the Secretary.

All submissions to the Parole Board are confidential and prisoners will not have access to them under any circumstances. If, however, information from your submission is used to justify the Parole Board’s decision and the prisoner asks for an explanation of that decision, the Board will summarise the relevant information in its report to the prisoner.

If the prisoner is paroled, and your name is on the Victim Register, you will be told his or her release date. You will be told of anything the prisoner must, or must not, do concerning you.  For example, you will be told if the prisoner has to stay away from you, and what happens if he or she does come near you.

To download an information sheet on parole and the rights of registered victims as a Word document, please click here.