July 2023 / Parole
Parole Condition Setting in Iowa: A Report in a Series on Aligning Supervision Conditions with Risk and Needs
by Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
Overview of parole condition-setting in Iowa: legal framework for setting conditions, purpose of conditions, process and information used to set conditions, use of standard vs. special conditions, perceptions of conditions (e.g., most important conditions, right number of conditions, unnecessary/outdated conditions), use of risk assessments to help determine conditions, responses to violations, and what people on parole need to be successful.