Paroling, Recommitting, and Supervising Federal Prisoners: Modification of Parole Conditions

摘要

The U.S. Parole Commission is revising the regulation that describes the statutory procedure that the Commission must follow whenever it changes a parolee's conditions of parole. The current regulation omits reference to an important exception to the statutory requirement that each parolee be given ten days to comment on any modification of the conditions of parole before it goes into effect. The Commission may waive the ten-day notice procedure when it determines that an immediate modification of the conditions of parole is necessary to prevent harm to the parolee or the public. Although the Commission presently has the statutory authority to apply this exception, and does so when circumstances warrant, the Commission has determined that its regulation should be amended to describe this authority. EFFECTIVE DATE: November 1, 1995. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Pamela A. Posch, Office of General Counsel, U.S. Parole Commission, 5550 Friendship Blvd., Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815. Telephone (301) 492-5959.