carefully examine and scrutinize the records and percentage tables provided for in Rule I, presenting such records and tables of each eligible prisoner to this board in tabulated form, and indorsing the same as correct and true, or otherwise, as their knowledge and judgment may determine. RULE III. Deposit and guaranty of employment. No prisoner shall be released on parole until satisfactory evidence shall have been furnished in writing, that employment will be given such prisoner by some responsible and reputable person, or that he will engage in some respectable business for himself. No prisoner shall be released on parole until there shall have been deposited by, or on his behalf, with the warden of the prison in which the prisoner is confined, the sum of $25.00. In the event of the violation by said prisoner of any of the conditions of his parole, the said sum of $25.00, and the whole thereof, shall be forfeited by the depositor thereof and shall be retained by said warden to be used in defraying the expense of arresting and recommitting paroled prisoners who violate the conditions of their parole. The moneys thus forfeited shall constitute a fund to be known as the "parole expense fund" and shall be expended for the purposes last above named when authorized by a majority of the board; such expenditures to be made by checks signed jointly by the warden and the clerk of the prison to which such expenditures respectively pertain. In all cases where no such violations occur the entire amount shall be refunded to the depositor on return of receipt, properly indorsed, after final discharge of said paroled prisoner. In 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 paroled, live and remain at liberty without violating the law, and that his release is not incompatible with the welfare of society, nor perversive to the ends of justice. Notice of intention. RULE IV. Each applicant shall cause to be published, at least once a week for two successive weeks, in a newspaper of general circulation, published in the county in which he was convicted, if such newspaper be published, the fact that he intends to apply for parole; and no application shall be considered by this board until the statement of the publisher, with copy of notice attached, shall have been filed. If no newspaper be published in the county, the notice shall be published in a newspaper in an adjoining county. Half term must be served. RULE V. No application for parole shall be filed by the clerk until the prisoner shall have served one half his sentence, unless for some extraordinary reason the same shall have been recommended in writing by the warden, with his reasons therefor, and ordered filed by the affirmative vote of at least four members of the board. Order of hearings. RULE VI. Applications for parole shall be placed on a calendar in the order of the date on which the completed papers 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. Argument and solicitation. RULE VII. No attorney shall be heard in behalf 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 filed with the clerk. No oral solicitation 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. It is unnecessary to have attorneys in parole cases, and the board will discourage the practice. Life termers. RULE IX. Lifetermers, and those who have served eight years, solid time, shall be placed on a separate calendar, and their applications shall be considered in the order in which they are filed with the clerk. Vote necessary for parole. RULE X. It shall require the affirmative vote of four members of the board to grant a parole or ticket-of-leave, whose names shall be signed to the certificate of parole. STANFORD LIBRARIES RULE XI. Rehearings. When an application for parole shall be denied the applicant shall not again become eligible to parole until the expiration of one year from the date of such denial, except that a rehearing of such application may be had within such year if recommended by the warden in writing with his reasons for such recommendation. RULE XII. Reports of paroled prisoners. Every paroled prisoner shall be required to subscribe in a book, to be kept for the purpose, his signature. Every paroled prisoner shall report in writing, over his signature, to the 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, if employed by another. In addition to reporting to the said parole officer 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 particular case. Said prisoner shall make such additional reports as the board in each particular case may require. RULE XIII. Violations of parole and forfeiture of credits. Every paroled prisoner shall be liable to be retaken and again confined within the prison for any violation of the conditions of his parole, or for any reason that shall be satisfactory to the board; and for any violation 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. Credits of paroled prisoners. RULE XIV. The board shall have the power to determine whether a paroled prisoner shall be allowed his credits, to be deducted froin his term of sentence, or shall forfeit his credits, for any offense which would cause his credits to be forfeited if confined in prison. RULE XV. Amendments. No alteration or amendment shall be made to these rules and regulations, unless at least four members of the board vote therefor, and no one of these rules shall be suspended without the unanimous consent of the board when at least four members are present. FORM OF PAROLE, OR TICKET-OF-LEAVE, CALIFORNIA STATE PRISONS. The state board of prison directors of California have confidence in you, and desiring to test your character and ability to refrain from crime and lead an honorable life, do, by virtue of the authority conferred upon them by law, grant and order this parole, under the following rules and regulations: .... 1. You shall proceed directly to the place of employment provided for you, viz.: and there remain, if practicable, for a period of at least six months from this date. 2. In case you find it desirable to change your employer or residence, you shall first obtain the written consent of the board of prison directors, through its parole officer. 3. You shall, on the first day of each month, until your final release by law, forward by mail to the parole officer of the state board of prison directors a report of yourself, in accordance with a blank form to be prescribed and furnished you by said |