What is the official Dauphin County sentencing order and parole eligibility language in the Collins judgment?
Executive summary
The reporting provided does not include the Collins judgment itself, so the specific, verbatim sentencing order and parole-eligibility clause from Collins cannot be quoted here; instead, this analysis synthesizes Dauphin County’s official practices and the statutory framing that would shape any county-sentence parole language, and points to where the Collins judgment record would need to be retrieved for the exact text [1] [2].
1. What the question actually requests and the limits of available records
The user seeks the “official Dauphin County sentencing order and parole eligibility language in the Collins judgment,” which is a request for the exact court-ordered wording in a specific judgment; the sources provided do not contain the Collins judgment or its verbatim order, so this report will describe the county’s standard legal framework and administrative practices that determine how such language is drafted and recorded, and identify where the actual Collins document would be obtained [1] [2] [3].
2. Who sets parole for a county sentence in Dauphin County and the typical phrasing used
Under Dauphin County practice, the sentencing judge — not the state parole board — grants parole for county sentences, and county probation/parole supervises those offenders; the county’s FAQ repeats that “the sentencing judge grants parole in a county sentence and the county probation office supervises these offenders,” which is the operative legal allocation that would be reflected in any county sentencing order such as Collins [1].
3. The statutory and administrative context that shapes sentencing language
County sentences in Pennsylvania are distinct from state sentences and are administered under county probation/parole programs overseen by the PCCD; this structural distinction means county judgments commonly include language specifying the judge’s authority to set parole terms and to place the defendant under county supervision — language informed by county-level rules and the PCCD framework rather than by the state Board of Probation and Parole [4].
4. How county orders are processed and where parole-language appears in the record
Dauphin County requires prompt processing of orders affecting confinement: all orders committing an individual to Dauphin County Prison or another facility must be filed, docketed, scanned, and distributed within forty-eight hours (with certain orders processed the same day), so the Collins judgment’s sentencing and parole-paragraph would be docketed into the county record and relayed to the prison and probation authorities under that rule [2].
5. Work-release, transfer, and operational language that commonly accompanies county judgments
Operational directives that often accompany county sentencing orders — for example, an “Order of the Court for Out of County Direct Commitment” or instructions to contact Work Release supervisors prior to reporting — appear in Dauphin County work-release documentation and are typically referenced in the court’s transfer/order language; if Collins involved transfer or work-release, the judgment would likely reference pre-approval, contact with specified staff, and submission of the sentencing order to the work-release coordinator [5].
6. Typical parole-eligibility mechanics for county sentences and implied phrasing
Practical parole eligibility under county sentences reflects that county terms are governed locally (often under two years’ maximum), so sentencing orders tend to state that the defendant is committed for a specified term and that the sentencing judge grants or sets parole and supervision conditions to be administered by Dauphin County Adult Probation and Parole Services; legal guidance sources repeatedly note that “the sentencing judge will grant parole for county sentences, and then the county parole officer will supervise the offender” — language likely mirrored in county judgments like Collins though the exact wording must be read in the judgment itself [6] [1].
7. How to obtain the Collins judgment text and what the record will show
Because the Collins judgment text is not in the supplied reporting, the exact sentencing order and parole eligibility clause must be pulled from the Dauphin County case record via the county’s public access tools or Clerk of Courts, which process orders as described in Dauphin County rules; the county’s public access portal and Clerk procedures are the appropriate routes to retrieve the official, docketed Collins order [3] [2].