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Miss. Code Ann. § 47-7-6

Parole Board to collect certain information and report semiannually to Oversight Task Force

Known as the Probation and Parole Law

The act spans §§ 47–47 (47 sections).

Laws, 2014, ch. 457, § 67, effective from and after July 1, 2014.

(1) The Parole Board,with the assistance of the Department of Corrections, shall collectthe following information: The number ofoffenders supervised on parole;

(2) The number ofoffenders released on parole;

(3) The number ofparole hearings held;

(4) The parole grantrate for parolees released with and without a hearing;

(5) The average lengthof time offenders spend on parole;

(6) The number andpercentage of parolees revoked for a technical violation and returnedfor a term of imprisonment in a technical violation center;

(7) The number andpercentage of parolees revoked for a technical violation and returnedfor a term of imprisonment in another type of Department of Corrections’facility;

(8) The number andpercentage of parolees who are convicted of a new offense and returnedfor a term of imprisonment on their current crime as well as the newcrime;

(9) The number ofparolees held on a violation in county jail awaiting a revocationhearing; and

(10) The average lengthof stay in a county jail for parolees awaiting a revocation hearing.

(11) The Parole Boardshall semiannually report information required in subsection (1) tothe Oversight Task Force, and upon request, shall report such informationto the PEER Committee.

Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.