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Prisoners and families
We use a lot of terms and acronyms that may be unfamiliar to you. If you find a term you do not understand visit the Glossary Page
There are a lot of different types of prison sentence that you can receive and how you are released depends on what type of sentence you get. If this is your first prison sentence, or you are serving one of the new sentences that came in 2005, you may find it confusing. These pages will tell you the basics about life licence and how it works. You may hear many words and phrases in prison that you do not understand. Also you will find initials used quite a lot, for example ADAs and PED. To help you with these, there are translations in the glossary.
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