Cap. 516 Art. 4Functions of the Offender Assessment Board.

(1) The Offender Assessment Board shall be responsible for:

(a) carrying out an analysis of the reports prepared in respect of each prisoner prior to and after sentencing. The Offender Assessment Board shall also consider previous reports compiled in connection with previous cases. Reports prepared after sentencing shall include:

(i) a detailed analysis of the problem areas that may have contributed to the criminal act committed by the prisoner in question; and

(ii) a care plan, designed by the officials responsible for proposing various restorative justice programmes to the prisoner, to undergo, to assist in his reformation and reintegration. Such care plan shall be reviewed and updated at regular intervals;

(b) examining the reports and reviewing documented results related to care plan adherence in relation to each prisoner who has submitted an application for parole. Subsequently, the Offender Assessment Board shall draft a report, which shall include:

(i) a risk assessment containing full details of the potential risk of danger the prisoner in question may pose upon being released on parole;

(ii) its recommendations to the Parole Board on whether the prisoner in question ought to be released on parole and the reasons thereof;

(iii) its recommendations to the Parole Board on the conditions that ought to be imposed on the prisoner upon the Parole Board’s decision to grant parole to the prisoner in question and such recommendations shall be based on the reports received, in relation to each prisoner who has submitted an application for release on parole;

(c) any other function which may be assigned to it by the Director of Correctional Services, after consultation with the Minister, from time to time.

(2) The Offender Assessment Board shall forward to the Parole Clerk all relevant documents referred to in sub-article (1) which shall then be included in the parole for the purposes of dossier assisting the Parole Board to take a parole decision.