A repeat rapist who was released from prison Friday after completing two-thirds of his three-year sentence appears ready to change, says a decision by the National Parole Board.

The board, however, also noted that 43-year-old Frank Ladue of Ross River remains a risk to re-offend until such time that he has completed the necessary treatment to address issues still unresolved.

As a result, the board has imposed three additional conditions to the standard conditions federal inmates must abide by after release from prison:

ï Ladue is to reside at a halfway house.

ï He is to undertake whatever psychological counselling is recommended.

ï He must abstain from all intoxicants.

The location of Ladue's place of residence is blacked out on the board's order.

However, the RCMP issued a public notification last week indicating Ladue was planning to return to Whitehorse, and is a moderate to high risk to re-offend violently.

The board noted that on previous occasions, Ladue maintained stability after his release from prison until shortly after the terms of his parole expired, when he began drinking again.

'You have been accepted at (the name of halfway house blacked out) and you agree that it is in your best interests to reside in a halfway house for some period of time to help with your transition back into the community,' reads the board's decision of Nov. 25.

'You will be starting a healing journey in regard to your experiences at residential school and this will be an added stress that will require as much support as is available during these difficult times.

'The board is satisfied that in the absence of a residency condition you will present an undue risk to society....'

The board also pointed out the RCMP are not impressed with Ladue's return to the region.

Ladue will be subject to the terms of the parole board decision for the year remaining in his sentence.

At the expiry of his sentence next December, however, he will be required to complete a seven-year supervision order imposed on him by territorial court Judge John Faulkner, who designated Ladue a long-term offender.

Ladue was sentenced two years ago after he was convicted of break, enter and sexual assault.

Evidence before the court indicated a woman who was drunk woke up to find Ladue attempting to remove her clothes.

The Ross River carver has been convicted in the past of raping two other women who were drunk and had passed out, as well as other criminal acts involving violence.

Evidence before the court painted Ladue's childhood as one filled with violence and abuse. That occurred both in his home community of Ross River and while attending the Catholic Indian residential school in Lower Post, B.C.

At the time of sentencing, the court heard that Ladue was an accomplished carver who posed no threat in the years he was able to maintain sobriety.

In a letter Ladue read to the court during sentencing, he asked that his higher power, his elders and his community not persecute him, but rather help him.

There was an elder present for his parole board hearing.