Parole information for determinate sentence prisoners

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. This booklet should tell you the basics about parole 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.

If you do not find out what you want to know from this booklet, there are other places to go for help. Prison Service Order 6000 (PSO 6000) goes into lots of detail about parole and is in the prison library.

What type of sentence have I got?

How do I apply to the Parole Board?

My dossier

The parole decision

The Parole Board for England and Wales

Grenadier House, 99-105 Horseferry Road, London, SW1P 2DX

Telephone 0845 251 2220