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Auditor-General Kevin Brady looked at 100 cases of offenders released on parole, including 52 serious cases.
He said this afternoon: "In most of those 100 case files, the department had not followed one or more of its own sentence management requirements. Five of the requirements that my staff checked are the most important, in my view, for keeping the public safe, and one or more of these five requirements had not been followed in most of the 100 cases."ditor-General: Parole failings a concern for public safety.

He said he was concerned at the department's ability to ensure public safety.

The five recommendations he was most concerned about were that:
* the proposed accommodation of offenders was not problematic for victims
* probation officers regularly visited offenders in their homes
* senior staff oversaw how probation officers manage high-risk offenders
* enforcement action was consistent and prompt
* victims were notified promptly about certain enforcement actions relating to an offender's parole.

And there is of course 'the probability of reoffending,' which, due to the nature of some forms of offending, are heightened by incarceration ... and this should be taken in to account quite independent of whether or not the person has a finite sentence.