This week we revealed a man on parole for a violent armed robbery was given a get-out-of-jail free card.
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The case of Heywood's Will Pickett has been a political football ever since he hit a teenager during a South West District football league match in 2018.
And recent events will ensure the politics continue.
The magistrate opted to not jail Pickett for breaching his parole after he found the 28-year-old guilty of recklessly causing injury.
The magistrate did so because he knew that under Victoria's mandatory jail sentence for violent offenders breaching parole, Pickett would serve time.
But the adult parole board ruled Pickett would not return to jail, citing "exceptional circumstances" and ironically the magistrate's penalty.
The father of the victim in this case was outraged. So too the broader community.
Victoria introduced mandatory jail sentences for those who breached parole after outrage over several high-profile cases where parolees committed serious crimes, including Adrian Bayley. Bayley raped and murdered ABC employee Jill Meagher in Brunswick in 2012 after admitting to a violent crime months earlier while on parole.
The parole board, state government and Corrections Victoria would not comment when contacted this week. Their silence is deafening. The community expects the system to keep it safe from violent offenders. These events show the system is not working the way it was intended.
Former High Court Judge Ian Callinan was appointed to review the Adult Parole Board in 2013 after Bayley's horrific crime. Mr Callinan made 23 recommendations, many of which the government implemented, to toughen parole qualifications.
Mr Callinan at the time said the board was too focused on the rehabilitation of offenders, to the detriment of community safety, and operated under the assumption prisoners had a right to be paroled.
It appears not much has changed.
The parole board and state government need to act because the community's expectations in this case were not met.