Web Site:

www.mass.gov/parole

Organization Chart

Mission:

The Parole Board identifies those parole eligible offenders for whom there is sufficient indication that confinement has served its purpose and sets the conditions of parole. The Parole Board strives to understand the concerns of victims and the general public and gives full consideration to these concerns when setting policy and making parole decisions.

Governing Laws:

Statutes

MGL C. 27 S. 4

Parole Board Members

MGL C. 27 S. 5

Parole Board Powers and Duties

MGL C. 127 S. 130

Paroling Statute

MGL C. 27 S. 7

Special Members of the Parole Board

MGL C. 127 S. 133A

Eligibility for Parole; notice and hearing

MGL C. 127 S. 133B

Parole of prisoners declared to be habitual criminals; conditions; revision; revocation

MGL C. 127 S. 133

Granting of parole permits by board; eligibility and requisites

MGL C. 127 S. 158

Parole board agents; duties

MGL C. 127 S. 131

Giving of parolee written copy of terms and conditions of parole

MGL C. 127 S. 131A

Notice to State and Local Police of terms and conditions of parole permits

MGL C. 127 S. 154

Parole board as advisory board of pardons; powers and duties

MGL C. 127 S. 128

Issuance of Parole Permits

MGL C. 127 S. 151D

Chairman of parole board as compact administrator and state commissioner; appointment of state council

MGL C. 127 S. 134

Appearance before board; investigation and hearing by staff members; reports; sentences served in other states

MGL C. 127 S. 127

Special State Police Officers, powers and duties

MGL C. 127 S. 149

Arrest for violation of permit; application of terms of original sentence; computation of period of confinement

MGL C. 127 S. 149A

Temporary custody of parolees; warrant

MGL C. 127 S. 133D1/2

Global positioning system device to be worn by certain sex offender parolees

Regulations

120 CMR 000

120 Code Mass. Regs, Parole Board.