I know many of us are eagerly awaiting response from the parole board and always have questions.... I thought I would share this information that I found today on the Southern Center for Human Rights website. Hope it helps!
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Georgia Parole Information

Below is information regarding the parole consideration process in Georgia. As you probably know, it is unfortunately a common occurrence for prisoners to be denied parole and set off several years with a new TPM. Because of our limited resources, we are unable to assist you with your individual situation.
However, we do have some information which may help you or others who have a TPM coming up.
Employees of the Parole office tell us that approximately three months prior to a person's TPM is the best time for people to write the Parole Board on someone's behalf. Any letters received before that time really don't matter. The Parole Board looks favorably upon certain things when considering parole. The following list includes those things, and should be the issues that family and friends should write to the Parole Board about:
1) having a place to live when released
2) an employment prospect or guarantee
3) a church, temple or mosque which will support someone when they are released
4) other community support, and programs (such as AA or others) to participate in
5) school or job training plans.

Prior to this three month period and throughout one's incarceration, the things which the Parole Board likes to see are:
1) participation in programs that are available in the prison system
2) a good disciplinary record
3) setting goals and making plans for when one gets out

If a person has been set off for a long period of time, he/she can write to the Parole Board to ask them to reconsider him/her for parole early. While the Parole Board is not obligated to do so, they will sometimes look at someone's situation again if you provide new information about yourself or your situation.
For example, you can request that they reconsider you if you have arranged a place to live and employment for when you are released; if you have completed additional programming or education since the last time they considered you; if your security level has changed or you have gone a long time without getting any DR’s; or if there are any other significant changes either in your current status or your prospects upon release.
We recommend that if you write to the Parole Board requesting that they reconsider your parole early, you include with your letter any information or letters of support (from family, future employers,prison work supervisors or counselors, etc.) that you may have. Again, they do not have any obligation to reconsider you early, but they may do so if you have some new information for them to take into account.

For more information concerning parole reconsideration for people with life sentences in Georgia, please see the description of the Jones v. Garner decision which is available on this website. We hope this
information is helpful. Best of luck to you.

that is very good info for people just starting the parole process, or wanting to know how to. thanks for sharing!

Thank you so much for the information. I am going to keep it for reference. One question I have though, is what happens to all the Request for Special Pardon and Parole Consideration? I have a form that I made a thousand copies of (not kidding) and family and citizens of the community have send in my son behalf. Do they just throw them away? At the bottom of the form it states that they have to contact each person that has sent on to verify that person really wrote the letter themselves. It is 3 pages. The first is the immates information, the second is the residence plan and the 3rd is for offer of employment. The spot on the first page leaves little room to write much so folks have attached additonal pages with their letters as instructed at the bottom of the first page. Have they done this all in vain? No one has contacted anyone that has written letters to verify that they wrote them. Eveyone is asking about them. I know that about 900 were sent and now it seem from what you say about that they are just going to be discarded. My son has 10 years to go and isn't even close to parole, but thats what we thought the form for special consideration was for.
Barbara