Referring to the gathered statistical data, Author presents considerations on the legitimacy of restoring the institution of privileged conditional early release in the Polish legal system. The main point for the considerations are the provisions of the Penal Code, which are no longer in force, which have been juxtaposed with the currently functioning provisions and the currently applicable directives of penal executive proceedings, relating to the regulation of the rights of convicted persons and affecting the improvement of the process of their social rehabilitation, both within penitentiary isolation and outside from it.