Ontario Parole Board

The Ontario Parole Board (OPB; French: Commission ontarienne des libérations conditionnelles) is an independent inquisitorial agency in Ontario, Canada. It is one of 13 adjudicative tribunals under the Ministry of the Attorney General that make up Tribunals Ontario.

The OPB is separate from the Parole Board of Canada, which can make parole decisions for individuals who are serving a sentence of 2 years or more.

Authority

The OPB can grant, deny, revoke, and suspend parole under the Ministry of Correctional Services Act. Also, the Ontario Parole Board can also authorize the re-committal of parolees to custody, lift one's parole suspension, or cancel a temporary absence it has granted.

Parole is a conditional release from a correctional institution. If a parolee breaches a condition of their parole, then the parole may be suspended or revoked.

The OPB renders decisions for offenders serving a sentence of less than two years in an Ontario correctional institution and applications for temporary absences from correctional institutions for more than 72 hours.

References

1. Parole Board of Canada
2. Murder of Reena Virk
3. Tribunals Ontario
4. Millhaven Institution
5. Steven Truscott
6. Back-to-back life sentences
7. Doug Rollins
8. Wells Gray Provincial Park murders
9. Thomas Hiram Preston
10. Albert Johnson Walker
11. Vincenzo DeMaria
12. Ministry of the Solicitor General (Ontario)
13. Paul Bernardo
14. William James Stewart
15. Correctional Service of Canada
16. Shane Kenneth Maloney
17. Thomas Bartlett Whitaker
18. Colleen Beaumier
19. Rob Ramage
20. Peter Demeter