While that period may be renewed, overcrowding has forced the Division for Youth to release offenders after an average stay of four to five months.

The panel has extraordinary powers to release nonviolent offenders before their terms expire and before they are even up for parole.

They warned that some states with similar laws almost never released offenders once they were civilly confined, raising questions about their rehabilitation efforts.

From this developed the system of releasing offenders on the condition that they kept in touch with the missionary and accepted guidance.

Nearby Riverbend is a minimum security facility that houses conditionally released offenders having residency requirements.

South Korea's Government released political offenders under the age of 70 only if they would renounce their political beliefs.

Many criminologists believe prisons produce crime by releasing into the community former offenders who are more prone to violence than when they were incarcerated.

Prosecutors will be able to challenge crown court decisions to release suspected serious offenders out on bail after David Cameron announced a change in the law yesterday.

Indeed, prisons must release violent offenders to make room for relative lightweights.

The governor's authority to release and revoke offenders was transferred to the board.