A parole board must understand and apply the public policy of encouraging cooperation with authorities in the apprehension of offenders, which may require a degree of leniency that would otherwise be unjustified. Where a sentencing judge's parole recommendation was substantially based on such cooperation, the board cannot refuse parole by relying on the very matters the sentencing judge already took into account, absent new adverse information arising during imprisonment. Ministerial guidelines must be construed consistently with this public policy.
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