2014 Arkansas Code
Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts
Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally
Chapter 93 - Probation And Parole
Subchapter 7 - Parole
§ 16-93-701 - Authority to grant and parameters.

(a) (1) The Parole Board may release on parole any individual eligible under the provisions of § 16-93-601 who is confined in any correctional institution administered by the Department of Correction, when in its opinion there is a reasonable probability that the prisoner can be released without detriment to the community or himself or herself.

(2) All paroles shall issue upon order, duly adopted, of the board.

(b) (1) Before ordering the release of any prisoner, the prisoner shall be interviewed by the board or a panel designated by the board and, for all parole decisions after January 1, 2012, the board shall conduct a risk-needs assessment review of all parole applicants.

(2) (A) The parole shall be ordered only for the best interest of society and not as an award for clemency.

(B) The parole shall not be considered as a reduction of sentence or a pardon.

(3) A prisoner shall be placed on parole only when the board believes that he or she is able and willing to fulfill the obligations of a law-abiding citizen.

(4) Every prisoner, while on parole, shall remain in the legal custody of the institution from which he or she was released, but shall be subject to the orders of the board.