2014 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 57. Prisons and Reformatories
§57-332.20. Two-stage parole consideration process - Tracking effects - Data collection.

The Department of Corrections, in conjunction with the Pardon and Parole Board, shall implement a method for tracking the success and recidivism of persons who are required to have a two-stage parole consideration process pursuant to subsection C of Section 332.7 of this title for the first three (3) years following their individual release from incarceration or release to parole. Included in the annual and cumulative data to be collected for this category of offenders shall be offender demographics and statistics including:

1. Offense type;

2. Sentence length;

3. Release information, indicating parole including the offense to which parole applied and whether multiple offenses or concurrent offenses were reviewed for purposes of parole or timed-out sentence and the percent of sentence served;

4. Number of persons by offense type eligible for parole consideration in the first and second stages of parole consideration in the calendar year;

5. Number of persons by offense type actually recommended for parole in the calendar year;

6. Number of persons by offense type granted parole by the Governor in the calendar year;

7. Rearrest data in the calendar year and cumulatively over the offender’s three-year data collection period;

8. Reincarceration data in the calendar year and cumulatively over the offender’s three-year data collection period;

9. Employment data for the calendar year cumulatively over the offender’s three-year data collection period; and

10. Other information deemed beneficial to analyzing the success and recidivism of this category of offenders annually and cumulatively over the offender’s three-year data collection period.

The information collected shall be made available to the members of the Legislature, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, and the Governor, by the Department of Corrections or the Pardon and Parole Board annually upon request, but not later than March 1 following the first data collection period.

Added by Laws 2007, c. 149, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2007. Amended by Laws 2009, c. 178, § 12.