Texas Department of Criminal Justice
The Review and Release Processing Section coordinates the orderly and safe release of all appropriate offenders to parole and mandatory supervision.
Case Tracking and Case Analysis staff at the Central Office are responsible for reviewing and processing offenders for release on parole supervision. Case tracking staff initiate residential and residential reentry center plans and prepares material for TDCJ-PD field staff. Case Analysis staff are responsible for record-keeping, case tracking, and case analysis. Analysts analyze each file for the parole plan approval process, county of residence, disciplinary action, special needs, discretionary and/or mandatory supervision, mandatory special conditions, Super-Intensive Supervision Program referable, and sex offender criteria.
In Fiscal Year 2012 the section processed 14,930 mandatory supervision releases and 25,414 parole releases from CID units, along with 238 mandatory supervision releases and 220 parole releases from other facilities. This totaled 15,168 mandatory supervision releases and 25,634 parole releases handled by the section. Review and Release Processing also maintained more than 220,000 offender files, processed more than 80,000 parole-related letters, and answered more than 230,000 telephone inquiries regarding the status of offenders' parole review or release.