445 - Paroles. - New York Statutes

§ 445. Paroles. The state board of parole in the executive department shall exercise its parole jurisdiction and supervise inmates of the Eastern correctional institution committed thereto under section four hundred thirty-eight of the correction law, who have been convicted of a criminal offense and not been recommitted after expiration of sentence, and those inmates transferred thereto under sections four hundred thirty-eight-a, four hundred thirty-eight-b, and four hundred thirty-nine of the correction law and the Albion state training school. An inmate paroled from the institution for defective delinquents located at Napanoch or the Albion state training school shall remain in the legal custody of the superintendent of such institution but shall be under the direct supervision of the division of parole. At any time during the parole period the inmate shall be accessible to the parole officers or other duly authorized representatives of the state board of parole. If a member of the state board of parole shall determine that such a paroled person has violated his parole or that the behavior of such paroled person makes him a menace to himself or the members of his family or the community, such member of the board of parole may order such parolee returned to the institution from which he was released on parole. The superintendent of the institution shall accept the paroled or conditionally released violator and the state board of parole shall determine what action is to be taken in the case of a person so returned. The institution and the state board of parole and the division of parole in the executive department shall not be liable in any manner whatsoever for such person while on parole. Such liability shall devolve upon the parent, legal guardian, relative, or persons to whose care the inmate is paroled or the proper welfare official of the municipality in which he may have found domicile. An inmate shall not be paroled before he might have been paroled from another institution, if any, to which he was originally committed or before he would have been paroled if he had been committed to a reformatory or correctional institution under a similar charge.