Parole board members consider a number of behavioral, demographic, and criminogenic factors when making a decision to release a person from prison. The role of victims’ correspondence on such decision-making has also been examined, but less well understood is the role of non-victim correspondence, despite substantial evidence that social support networks are crucial to reentry success and reducing recidivism. Drawing upon a sample of 694 randomly selected cases involving men incarcerated in Iowa, the present study examines the relationship between non-victim correspondence and release decisions. Thirty-six percent of the sample had correspondence included in their parole hearing file with the majority written by family and friends, judicial actors, or correctional officers. Neither intensity of correspondence, the persuasion, nor the identities of non-victim authors were significantly associated with release decision in multivariate modeling. Instead, correctional counselor recommendation, risk assessment, and race emerged as significant factors in directing parole board member decision-making.