Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-07-05
new PAROLE RULES 5:
NEW BODY ESTABLISHED ~ ACT
OF RECENT LEGISLATURE, PRO-
MulGATEsL LAW oF'PRocEDURE
ORAL ARGUMENTS ARE BARRED
Prisoners Conduct, Previous Record,
Nature Of Crime and Future
Prospects to Decide
His Fate.

Seventeen rules. governing the pa,
role Of prisoners from the state reform.
atory and the state prison and pro
viding the procedure that will be fol
lowed by the State Parole board estab.
lished under the law passed by the
last Legislature, were promulgated by
the State Board Of Control.
The rules provide that the parole
board shall meet at the two institu-
lions as near the first Of each month
as possible, to hear applications for pa
role; prohibit oral arguments favoring
or opposing a prisoners parole, and
make it obligatory upon a prisoner,
when applying for parole, to furnish
the board all facts concerning his pre-
vious history. This Information will
be kept confidential.
Four points will be taken into &C.
count by the board in considering an
application for parole: The prisoners
conduct in the institution; his previous
record, tendencies and habits; the ma
ture of his crime, and the probabili-
ties. from all Of the facts obtainable,
that he will lead correct life IL pa
rolled.
The Rules.
The rules in full follow:
First. the board Of parole will meet
at the Minnesota state reformatory and
tho Minnesota state prison as near the
frst OF each month as convenience WILL
permit. to hear applications for parole.
second--Applicants may appear be.
meeting after the expiration Of their
minimum sentence. provided they have
in the first grade for six
before the board.
Third-An application which has
once been denied shall not be again
made within six months from date OF
time Of the hearing.
Fourth-The law creating the board
OF parole does not prohibit said board
on
parole. but for convenience in the dis
patch Of business and in the interest Of
uniform justice to all, oral arguments
nected with the reformatory or the
prison, in favor Of or against the parole
or release OF any prisoner. will not be
=. Fifth-.in considering the question Of
the parole Of an inmate, the board will
take into account his conduct while an
previous to his imprisonment, his char
acter. tendencies, habits, and ideas as
shown by his prison life; tho nature
the 9f the om a Ss
rect life il paroied.
3Ss shortly I'll after
ed to give statement Of his case in ac-
cordancc with the questions asked in a
blank form provided for that purpose.
% o b ea Part st the
and will be used for the purpose OF
investigation and notification as to his
past record, and will be presented with
for parole is under Consideration.
SEVENTH prisoner who claims to
names or addresses to the superintend-
ent Of the reformatory or to the ward
en- Of the state prison or to the state
isfactory history Of his past life i. OBJ
tanned. Such Information, when OBJ
tained: viii net be used to the detri-
his friends, but viii be regarded as
strictly confidential It is required in
order that the offlcials may be thor
oughly acquainted with the conditions
Employment for Prisoner.
do E,ghthThe question Of employment
a apP d13g for a parole. therefore it is
SPECIAL permission: that prisoners write
to friends friends Or relatives making any ar
1ore or after being paro1ed.
place and kind Of employment will be
state agent, under direction o of the the
board Of parole. All contracts for en-
p1oyment are subject to the approval
PsFe5ea Viii not f be- allewe Cd
or its agents. Where It is Thought
nsees oE{ 5a;Xe7tisat9n
order that as favorable conditions NAV
surround the prisoner while ON parole
as 1t Is possible to obtain.
or EaleVe en- a,,o It be necessary in
Improper treatment of the paroled man
or OF his inability to do the work re-
m n@l5ed ~ tpa pta+ Investigation win be
rect1on OF the superintendent Of the
state reformatory or the warden OF the
state stat prison: with view to securing
p PFC eno1a, ana justice to the employee
,Twelfth-No paroled prisoner will be
paced where there Is any reason to be-
neye that he will not be treated fairly
ana justly and paid for his service in
dustry.
Thirteenth-No paroled prisoner will
Dc sent to the PLACE Of employment Sc
cured for him until he has been advised
as to the kind of employment, the
Fourteenth-No change of employ
ten consent Of the employer so long
ment. - Ia" "si
role tho prisoner shall be IN the OF ie pa
custody and under the control Of he
superintendent Of the. state reforma-
tory: the warden Of the state prison,
respective institutions, until the ex-