❓ Ms Quirk questions the Attorney General about the Prisoners Review Board's practice of not publishing reasons for denying parole, contrasting it with a previous practice of publishing all decisions. The Attorney General responds that denying parole decisions are not published as they primarily affect the prisoner and their family, not the wider community.
AnsweredQoN 1506Legislative Assembly
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I refer to the previous practice of the Parole Review Board publishing all reasons for its decisions, favourable and unfavourable, can the Minister please advise why the reasons for refusal are no longer published?
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Answered
3 December 2013
Responded by
Minister representing the Attorney General
Response time
33 days
It is the current practice of the Prisoners Review Board (the Board) to publish all its decisions, and reasons for those decisions, concerning the release of a prisoner to parole and the cancellation of a parole order, on the Board's website. I am advised that the Board has never published its decisions to deny release to parole as these decisions generally have no impact on the community, and only affect the prisoner concerned and his or her immediate family, hence their publication is not considered to be in the public interest.
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