The new parole law in Texas embodies the following important features:
A board of prison commissioners acting as a board of parole;
eligibility for parole when the minimum sentence has expired; the
retaking by the employes of the board of delinquent paroled men;
meetings of parole board when necessary; opportunity for each prisoner
at expiration to appear in person or before board; merit system of
recording prisoner’s life and conduct during term; absolute release at
discretion of board; agent for employment and supervision; delinquent
paroled prisoner to be regarded in same light as escaped prisoner.
“When a convict who has been paroled shall have complied with the rules
and conditions governing his parole until the end of the term to which
he was sentenced, he shall upon a written or printed discharge by the
board of prison commissioners, setting forth these facts, be entitled
to a restoration of his citizenship by the Governor of the State of
Texas.”