The Board of Pardons and Paroles shall consider the following factors in determining the grant or denial of a compassionate parole:
- (1) The inmate's assessed risk level;
- (2) The inmate's conduct in prison;
- (3) The inmate's conduct while on extended confinement, if applicable;
- (4) Sentence served and sentence remaining;
- (5) Offense and chronicity of criminal behavior;
- (6) Prognosis and incapacitation level;
- (7) The inmate's compliance with health care ordered by a health care provider;
- (8) Release plan including provisions for health care;
- (9) Input, if any, of the sentencing judge, the prosecuting attorney, and the victim;
- (10) If the care and supervision that the inmate requires and is anticipated to require can be provided in a more medically appropriate or cost effective manner than the Department of Corrections;
- (11) Allowing a geriatric or terminally ill person to live at a location outside of prison prior to death; and
- (12) The ability to adequately monitor the inmate, after release, to ensure public safety.
Source: SL 2018, ch 154 , § 3.