Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles Annual Statistical Report: 2011 Page: 4
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The parole review process entails an exhaustive review
and consideration of an offender's case, from conviction
offense, to medical and psychological history, to how they
have adjusted and behaved in prison. Case files arrive
in each board office once or twice a week or are sent
as an electronic file through the Offender Management
Information System (OIMS). Each parole panel or the
board reviews files and interviews victims upon request
as required in Texas Government Code, 508.153.
Interviews with offenders and other individuals in support/
protest of an offender is at the voter's discretion.
Parole Panels
A parole panel is composed of one board member
and two parole commissioners who make decisions
by majority vote concerning parole and discretionary
mandatory release, revocation and imposing conditions
of supervision. For offenders convicted of certain
offenses, the law requires a vote of two-thirds of the
board members to make a decision (Texas Government
Code, 508.046, Extraordinary Vote Required).
Parole Review
All offenders sentenced to a term of incarceration in
the Texas Department of Criminal Justice-Correctional
Institutions Division (TDCJ-CID) are eligible for
release on parole, except those sentenced to death,
those serving a sentence of life imprisonment without
parole, or those who committed an offense listed in
Texas Government Code, 508.145. If an offender is
denied parole, a parole panel or the board is required to
reconsider an offender for release as soon as practical
after the first anniversary of the date of the denial unless
the offender is convicted of an offense listed in Texas
Government Code, 508.149(a). For those cases, the
parole panel or the board will review the case between
the first and the fifth anniversary date of the denial.
Board Activity Report
The Board of Pardons and Paroles was established by
the Texas Constitution to make decisions concerning
parole and to recommend clemency to the governor.
The tables in this section of the annual report will
detail the activities of the Board Members and Parole
Commissioners' votes for and against parole anddiscretionary mandatory supervision; revocation and
non-revocation decisions including the number of
hearings conducted and waivers reviewed; and the
number of clemency cases reviewed by the board
members.
Parole Considerations
The overall parole approval rate for FY 2011 was
31.05%. Parole considerations inthe following table are
separated into violent and non-violent and aggravated
sexual and aggravated non-sexual. An example of a
violent offense is murder and non-violent is possession
of a controlled substance. The sexual and non-sexual
categories are self-explanatory.
There are additional tables in this section that
provide a history of the overall parole approval rates,
approval and denial rates for each board member,
approval rate by type and other related parole tables
by designated categories e.g., consecutive sentences,
Parole in Absentia, Medically Recommended Intensive
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