Statement of Forecast Service Performance - Output Class 2: Community-based Sentences and Orders

This output class provides for the management and delivery of community-based sentences and orders through sentence management and sentence compliance services. Included as part of these services are the sentences of supervision and community work and orders such as home detention, parole, post-release conditions and extended supervision for serious childsex offenders.

The services provided meet the terms of judicial decisions on sentences in each case, and also provide opportunities for offenders to acknowledge their responsibilities and address offending behaviour.

It provides for an estimated 42,606 new sentences and orders.

Expenses for Output Class 2 Community-Based Sentences and Orders

For the Year Ending 30 June 2007

Outputs in this output class will be provided within the appropriated sum of $75.740 million (exclusive of GST).

OUTPUT 2.1 Supervision

This output ensures that offenders sentenced to supervision report regularly to their Probation Officer and, if ordered by the court, fulfil special conditions that will address the reasons for their offending. Supervision may include in-depth, focused interventions such as rehabilitative programmes or reintegration services or counselling that addresses their offending.

OUTPUT 2.2 Community Work

This output ensures that an offender sentenced to community work completes the sentenced number of hours work within the community. It provides for reparation to the community. The type of community work that can be performed is specified in the sentencing Act 2002.

OUTPUT 2.3 Home Detention Orders

This output entails administering home detention orders imposed by the New Zealand Parole Board. Under the conditions of hese orders, the offender resides at home under strict conditions and with strict monitoring of those conditions. Offenders may e required to undertake a rehabilitative programme or reintegration service or counselling that addresses their offending.

OUTPUT 2.4 Parole Orders

This output entails a Probation Officer administering an order imposed by the New Zealand Parole Board. It includes the Probation Officer meeting regularly and working closely with an offender subject to a parole order, and ensuring that special conditions imposed by the Board are fulfilled.

OUTPUT 2.5 Orders for Post-release Conditions

This output entails a Probation Officer administering post-release conditions for prisoners with short sentences, as imposed by the judiciary at the time of sentencing.

OUTPUT 2.6 Extended Supervision Orders

This output entails the administering of an order imposed by the court, with conditions set by the New Zealand Parole Board to actively manage the long-term risks posed by high-risk child sex offenders in the community. The order can apply for up to 10 years following a fi nite term of imprisonment and is administered by a Probation Officer.