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Community Corrections

- About Community Corrections
- About us
  Information about Community Corrections Tasmania.
- Community Partnerships
  Community Corrections works with a wide range of community-based organisations to support offenders in the community.
- Contact us
  How to contact Community Corrections Tasmania and the location of its offices.
- Careers
- Working at Community Corrections
  Career and work opportunities at Community Corrections.
- Working as a Probation Officer
  Working as a Probation Officer with Community Corrections Tasmania.
- Applying for work
  How to apply for work with Community Corrections Tasmania.
- Orders
- Community Correction Orders
  A Community Correction Order allows an individual to remain in the community while serving their sentence.
- Home Detention
  Home Detention Orders require an offender to be at a specified premise, during specified times and to comply with strict conditions, including electronic monitoring.
- Community Service
  Community service involves unpaid work under the direction of a Probation Officer or a Community Service Supervisor. Community service may be required in sentencing or for unpaid infringment fines.
- Court Mandated Diversion and Drug Treatment Orders
  A Court Mandated Diversion is a sentencing option that diverts eligible offenders into treatment for their drug use.
- Parole Orders
  A Parole Order allows a prisoner to serve part of their sentence in the community under strict conditions monitored by their Probation Officer.
- Programs
- EQUIPS Programs
  The Explore, Question, Understand, Investigate, Practice, Succeed (EQUIPS) programs help medium to high risk offenders with a history of addiction, aggression, and domestic abuse.
- Family Violence Offender Intervention
  The Family Violence Offender Intervention Program (FVOIP) is for people with a history of family violence offences.
- Sober Driver Program
  The Sober Driver Program is designed for repeat drink driving offenders.

Breach of Parole

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Under a Parole Order a prisoner is serving the remainder of their sentence in the community.

Non-compliance with the conditions of a Parole Order is a serious matter. If a parolee breaches a condition of their Parole Order, Community Corrections will notify the Parole Board immediately.

The Parole Board may choose to:

request a Probation Officer issue a formal warning (and note the non-compliance on file)
direct a parolee to appear with a notice to attend at the next Parole Board hearing to discuss and explain the breach
issue a warrant for the arrest of the parolee

Upon returning before the Parole Board, as directed or as a result of being picked up on a warrant, any of the following may occur:

a formal warning may be given
the Parole Order may be varied, amended or confirmed
the Parole Order may be suspended on such terms as the Board sees fit
the Parole Order may be revoked (in which case the offender will be required to serve their sentence in prison from the time they were released)

If a parolee is sentenced to imprisonment for an offence committed during the period of their release on parole, the Parole Order is revoked, whether or not, at the time of his or her conviction for that offence, the period of that release had expired.

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Last updated: 8 August 2022

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