In the matter of the Corrections Act 1997
and
In the matter of an application for parole by Alan Richard Summers
10 September 2002
CHAIRMAN: Alright Mr. Stanley you are going to be paroled, again. We are obliged to explain the reasons for that so you’ll bear with me.
It is noted that you were sentenced in 1996 to a period of five years imprisonment in relation to armed robbery and burglary and stealing. Your release from parole was authorised by the Board on the 13th of July 1999 and it has to be said your conduct on parole was of a reasonably acceptable standard until things went awry towards the end of last year. Suffice it to say, on the 19th of November 2001, your parole was revoked and you were returned to prison, which must have been a matter of regret for you given that you were well into your parole at that stage.
Since that time you have been reviewed by the Board and your parole, or application for parole, was refused again on the 6th of June 2002. Your application, at that stage, was refused amongst other things because of the difficulties that you had with, an inability to or refusal to acknowledge, that you had an alcohol problem. Since that time we have been advised, both by you and also in a report dated the 5th of August 2002 from Rebecca Devine – a parole officer stationed in Launceston, that you had contacted her, after the most recent Board meeting, you’d asked to be assessed by a worker from Missiondale Rehabilitation Program in Launceston. The Board notes that it’s familiar with the Missiondale program. We have also a report from a supervisor at Missiondale, indicating that you are an acceptable candidate for entry into the program. That letter, dated the 31st of July 2002, notes that it’s important for you to realise that Missiondale is not a “soft option” compared to with a prison sentence and if you are not prepared to work within the guidelines of the program Missiondale would not protect you from the consequences. And the Board’s in no doubt that you fully understand the consequences of what you are getting yourself into.
Ms. Devine recommends to us that it were a condition of your parole order that immediately upon your release from prison you attend the Missiondale Rehabilitation Program and that you not to absent yourself or bring about your discharge from that program without the approval of your parole officer. The Board considers that that’s an appropriate order to make, in addition to the normal orders associated with parole. The Board’s order today is that you will be released on parole, you will be released with effect from the 17th of September 2002 and you will be on parole for, looks like a period of two years but that will be confirmed.
Upon your release you are to report immediately, in person, to the Manager of Community Corrections at Launceston. Thereafter you will be subject to precisely the same terms of parole as your parole order dated the 13th of July 1999, save and except that Clause 18 of that order, which required you to refrain from the consumption of intoxicating liquor for the first six months of the parole period will be amended to read that you are to refrain from intoxicating liquor whilst on parole.
In addition a further order will be made that immediately upon release from prison you attend the Missiondale Rehabilitation Program and that you are not to absent yourself from that program or bring about your discharge from that program without the approval of your parole officer. You understand the terms of your parole?
