NCJ Number
106974
Date Published
1987
Length
4 pages
Annotation
The collective response of five corrections officials to Critical Report 87-1 regarding the death of parolee Patrick Riley and his hostage on May 20, 1987, projects a misleading confidence in Iowa's intensive supervision parole program and tends to mollify the public with an illusion of public safety.
Abstract
Riley was not made accountable during his parole and was not intensively supervised, even though he was the type of high-risk offender the intensive parole program was designed to supervise. The compromise of program standards led to Riley's parole failure. In their response, the officials misrepresent the number of contacts Riley had with his parole officer. The officials count as multiple officer-parolee contacts extended single face-to-face office visits with followup telephone contacts. The quality of the contacts did not constitute intensive supervision parole, since the officer did not exercise a detailed management of the parolee's movements, associations, and use of time.