Vic parole too easy to get: report Victoria's parole board has been releasing violent and sexual offenders far too easily, according to a highly-anticipated state government report. The report by former High Court justice Ian Callinan, released on Tuesday, says the Adult Parole Board needs an overhaul. "I formed the impression that the balance in relation to the grant of parole, its cancellation, and the revocation of cancellations may have been tilted too far in favour of offenders, and sometimes, even serious offenders," he said. Premier Denis Napthine says he completely agrees with the recommendations of the Callinan review. "The safety of the community will be the highest priority for the Adult Parole Board," Dr Napthine said. The parole board's deliberations have been skewed too much in favour of prisoners and offenders. Dr Napthine says the government will make it clear through the law that community safety must be the board's top priority. "We recognise the very real need to fix the parole system in Victoria," he told reporters. We've introduced laws that make the Victorian parole system the toughest in Australia. He says this week parliament will debate laws that make breaching parole a crime. Dr Napthine said dangerous offenders in the past had been given the benefit of the doubt too often. That changes today. Parole is a privilege, not a right," he said. Community safety had to be the cornerstone priority of parole reform. "This government has made a consistent, unashamed and unambiguous statement that serious and dangerous offenders should be treated with the utmost caution," the premier said. "The consequences have been totally and utterly unacceptable," he said in relation to past parole failures. That will change and that will change from today. The government wants to hear from victims, family members and community members to finetune the recommendations, Dr Napthine said. A cabinet taskforce will examine the recommendations. The report found the Adult Parole Board's workload was impossible to manage. "The volume of work sought to be done by the board is intolerably heavy," it said. In 2011/12 the board considered 10,205 cases, a 13.9 per cent increase on the previous year. To deal with 20-30 cases daily is impossible, the report said. Dr Napthine said the parole board spent an inordinate amount of time dealing with and assessing existing prisoners. "Those resources should be better spent with more people on the ground supervising parolees, making sure those parolees are abiding by the conditions of their parole and making sure the community is safe," he said. Dr Napthine said the government will immediately: put time limits on parole board members to stop "institutionalisation"; make the chair of the board a full-time role; make parole board policies public; force the parole board to report on homicides and serious offences committed by parolees; appoint a police officer from the fugitive taskforce to the board. Corrections Minister Edward O'Donahue says the government wants more transparency, but won't hold parole hearings in public or release all parole decisions because the people appearing before the board are convicted prisoners with no legal representation.