As an organisation involved in prisoner’s rights in Queensland for over 25 years, the Prisoners’ Legal Service Inc has detailed experiences with the operation and decision making processes undertaken by the Queensland Parole Boards. Indeed, in recent years the Service has sought to agitate for a review of the operation of the Parole Boards to […]
In November 2015 the Prisoners Legal Service represented a parolee with respect to a judicial review of the Queensland Community Corrections Board (“QCCB”) decision to place a condition on her parole, that she was not to publish any document sustainably connected with or describing any detail of the offence for which she was on parole, or with any
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Prisoner C made a parole application to the Queensland Parole Board on 5 February 2014. Due to various delays and referrals, the Board took 471 days to reach its decision of refusal, well beyond the maximum 210 days allowed under the Corrective Services Act 2006. After C commenced proceedings to review the said parole refusal the matter
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