---
title: "Parole Hearings"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/crim-criminal-law-en/parole-hearings-en"
field: "Criminal Law"
description: "Parole hearings: thresholds of served time, the council's assessment, duties and cancellation. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-07-09"
updated: "2026-10-29"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Parole Hearings

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/crim-criminal-law-en/parole-hearings-en

## The Conditions of Parole

A person sentenced to community service, corrective labour, service restriction of a military person or house arrest may be released on parole where the court considers that full serving of the appointed sentence is no longer necessary for the person's correction. Where the sentence is a term of deprivation of liberty, the initiative lies with the local council of the special penitentiary service, which assesses whether full serving is no longer necessary for correction; a convicted person placed in a special-risk establishment is excluded from this route — an exception reflecting the view that for this category the interest of protecting society outweighs the prospect of correction. The released person may also be freed wholly or partly from serving an accessory sentence.

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### Minimum served term?

Half, two thirds or three quarters by category, but not less than six months.

### Who assesses?

The local council; the court decides.

### A new crime?

Intentional — cancellation and a new sentence; negligent — the court's decision.

### Labour computation?

Five hours of labour equal one day of deprivation of liberty.