Board’s Authority
About Us
What We Do
- Conduct hearings and reviews
- Determine when an individual is paroled
- Return individuals to prison and revoke parole
- Impose and amend conditions of parole
- Impose sanctions for parole violations
- Terminate sentences prior to expiration
- Pardon individuals convicted of crimes
- Commute death sentences
- Commute or reduce other sentences
- Determine credit for time served
- Schedule hearings and locations. Some hearings are conducted entirely online.
What We Don't Do
- Determine when someone enters programming at the prison (Utah Department of Corrections)
- Determine where someone is housed (Utah Department of Corrections)
- Initiate mandatory or discretionary time cuts (Utah Department of Corrections)
- Create the sentencing guidelines (Utah Legislature & Utah Sentencing Commission)
- Verify addresses for parole (Utah Department of Corrections)
- Conduct investigations (local law enforcement, Utah Department of Corrections as applicable)
- Retry court cases (Sentencing Courts or individual legal counsel)
- Determine prison access for hearings (Utah Department of Corrections)