Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-20
BRANDS PAROLE
CRUEL ILLUSION
COL GRIFFITH ADDRESSES
LEGISLATORS
EXPLAINS HELPLESS CONDITION
OF DESERVING PRISONERS
Will Introduce Reform Measure at
Coming Session, in Which Other
Important Changes Will
Be Discussed

rules and regulations passed by the
board of prison directors of the state
of California, which formed the sub
ject of an address delivered by Colonel
Griffith J. Griffith before the chamber
of commerce last week to the Southern
California delegation to the legisla-
ture:
mo prisoner whose record shall not
have been good for six consecutive
months prior to application for parole
shall be eligible for parole.
NO application for parole shall be
filed by the clerk until the prisoner
shall have served one-half of his SEN
tence, unless for some extraordinary
reason the same shall have been
recommended by the warden, with his
reasons therefor, and ordered filed by
tn affirmative vote of at least four
members of the board.
Applications for parole shall be
placed on a calendar in order of the
date on which they are filed with the
clerk and such applications shall be
heard in such order, and in no case
shall an application be heard out of
order.
Life termers and those who have
served eight years solid time shall be
| their applications shall be considered
in the order in which they are filed
with the clerk
1T shall be the duty of the clerk
/ or other officer of the prison to obtain
all the information possible of the
| antecedents of each and every appli-
cant for parole, together with such
| statements of the crime committed by
| the prisoner, and such advice and
/ opinion concerning the advisability OF
| granting a parole as can be obtained
from the judge who tried the case, the
district attorney and the counsel for
the defense.
mo prisoner shall be released on
parole until satisfactory evidence shall
| have been furnished this board in
| writing that employment will be fur
nished such prisoner by some respon-
sible and reputable person, certified to
be such by the clerk of the county
where such person resides, or that he
will engage in some respectable bust
ness for himself.
| O. mo prisoner shall be released on
parole until there shall have been de-
posted with the warden of the prison
| in which the prisoner is confined the
sum of $25; said deposit to be used in
| defraying the expense of arreSting and
recommitting the paroled prisoner
should conditions of parole be violated.
Should no such expense be incurred
the entire amount shall be refunded
to the depositor on return of the re-
ceipt, properly Endorsed, after final
discharge of said paroled prisoner.
I'm no case shall any prisoner be
| released on parole unless there is, in
the Judgment of the board, reasonable
ground to believe that he will, if pa
rolled, live and remain at liberty with
out violating the law, and that his re-
lease is not incompatible with the well
fare of society or perverting the ends
I of justice.
each applicant shall cause to have
| published at least once a week for
! two successive weeks in two newspa-
pers of opposite politics published in
the county in which he was convicted
if such newspapers are published, the
fact that he intends to apply for pa
role; and no such application shall be
considered by this board until the
statement of publishers, with a copy
| of notice attached, shall have been
| filed In counties where only one
newspaper is published, or where all
the papers are of the same politics, it
| shall only be necessary, however. to
publish such notice or intention in one
newspaper. If no newspaper is pub
| lished in the county the notice shall
be published in an adjoining county.
mo application shall be considered
until a statement has been obtained
| from the ulSlIlCl attorney WHO prose-
| cuted the case, or the district attor
ney of the county in which the pris-
| oner was convicted, showing that the
| applicant had not, to the knowledge
of said district attorney, been convict
ed of a felony or served q term in
penal institution prior to that for
which sentence is being served, and
that the said district attorney knows
of no other indictment or serious
charge pending against said prisoner.
No application shall be considered
when the board has knowledge from
any source that the applicant has
previously been convicted of a felony
and served a term in a penal instttu-
ton, or that there is another indict-
ment or serious charge against said
prisoner.
mo attorney shall be heard in be-
half of any prisoner, nor shall an oral
argument be allowed. All facts which
may be thought to entitle a prisoner to
| parole shall be stated in writing and
fled with the clerk. No oral solicita-
ton of any kind will be permitted.
Each applicant must file with his
application a statement of all sums of
money which he has paid or promised
to pay, directly or indirectly, to any
attorney or other person for assistance
in preparation of papers or other
cause, or that any other person has
paid or promised to pay in his behalf.
4 1t is unnecessary to have attorneys in
parole cases, and the board will dis
courage the practice.
Every paroled prisoner shall report
in writing, over his signature, to the
state parole officer in San Francisco,
on the first day of every month until
released by law Said report shall be
countersigned by the person in whose
employ the paroled prisoner may be at
the time. In addition to reporting to
the said clerk every paroled prisoner
shall also report to either a chief of
police, a sheriff of a county, a justice
of the peace, a constable or such other
person as the board may designate, in
such a manner and at such times as
the board may prescribe in each par
ticular case
EVERY paroled prisoner shall be liable
to be retaken and again confined with
in the prison for any violation of the
conditions of his parole or for any vio-
lation of the conditions of his parole,
/ or for any reason that shall be salts
1 factory to the board, and for any VIOLA
ton of the conditions of his parole, or
of any OF these rules, or any rules
of this prison, the paroled prisoner may
/ forfeit all or any part of his credits,
at the sole discretion of the board.
"The board shall have the power to
determine whether a paroled prisoner
shall be allowed his credits to be de-
Quoted from his term of sentence, OF
shall forfeit his credits for any Of
/ Tense which would cause his credits
to be forfeited II confined in prison.
"The state does not furnish either
| money clothes or TRANSPORTATION tC