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NEWS ABOUT: parole

parole stories: 13 news summaries

Calif. Parole Bungled
Jaycee Case

Watchdog says
Dugard could've been found long ago

Nov 4, 09 3:58 PM CST
(Newser) - Jaycee Lee Dugard could have been found and Phillip Garrido put behind bars much sooner if California parole officials had done their jobs properly, a report by a state prison monitor says. For starters, authorities did nothing when Garrido’s electronic monitor showed he’d traveled further from his home... More »

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California • sex offenders • parole • Jaycee Lee Dugard • Phillip Garrido

Garrido's 1976 Victim Attends Jaycee Hearing

Katie Callaway Hall 'here because he kidnapped, raped me'

Oct 30, 09 2:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - A woman kidnapped and raped by Phillip Garrido unexpectedly visited the Bay Area to watch a court hearing for Garrido, who stands accused of the kidnapping and rape of Jaycee Lee Dugard. Garrido abducted and assaulted Katie Calloway Hall in 1976, but was released on parole in 1988. Hall says... More »

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California • kidnapping • rape • trial • abduction • parole • child rape • Jaycee Lee Dugard • Phillip Garrido • Katie Callaway Hall • Placerville, Calif.

Dying Ex-Manson Disciple Atkins Denied Release 

Parole board refuses Susan Atkins' request for mercy

Sep 3, 09 2:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - California yesterday rejected Susan Atkins' plea for compassionate release, the Los Angeles Times reports. The former Charles Manson family member—California's longest-serving female inmate—has brain cancer and likely has just months to live. Atkins was busted in 1969 for participating in the murder of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and... More »

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parole • Charles Manson • Susan Atkins • Sharon Tate • Manson Family • compassionate release

(Newser) - The only person convicted in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland, has been released on compassionate grounds and will return to Libya, reports the BBC. Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was sentenced to life for the murder of 270 people, but he is suffering from prostate cancer... More »

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terrorism • Scotland • Libya • bombing • clemency • parole • Lockerbie • plane hijacking • Pan Am Flight 103 • Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi

(Newser) - A chubby mobster has been barred from eating at New York restaurants known as Mafia hangouts, reports the New York Post. Anthony "Fat Tony" Rabito, 75, was just paroled on gambling, extortion, and racketeering charges, and he can no longer chow down at a string of wise guy spots,... More »

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Brooklyn • Mafia • parole • obese • Bonanno crime family

Ga. Sex Registry Pulls Non-Offenders Onto List

Those who committed no sex offense are subject to harsh rules

Mar 16, 09 11:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Georgia’s sex offender registry includes rapists, child molesters, and, in a controversial move, a growing number of people who never committed a sexual offense, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Under the state's broadly written law, anyone convicted of kidnapping or false imprisonment of a minor goes on the list, too,... More »

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Atlanta • kidnapping • Georgia • sex offenders • parole • sex crime

Kremlin Foe Denied Bid
for Parole

Oil tycoon, Putin opponent remains in Siberian prison

Aug 22, 08 10:40 AM CDT
(AP) - A Russian court has rejected Mikhail Khodorkovsky's request for parole on Friday, ordering the jailed oil tycoon to serve out the remainder of his sentence in a ruling his lawyer called politically motivated. Khodorkovsky, the former head of Yukos oil company and once Russia's richest man, was sentenced to 8... More »

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Russia • prison • Siberia • parole • political prisoner • Yukos • Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Chapman Ashamed He Killed Lennon

In failed bid for release, gunman says he had been in search of fame

Aug 20, 08 11:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mark David Chapman told the parole board that he is ashamed of killing John Lennon, according to transcripts of the hearing released yesterday. "I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is. I have changed a lot," he said... More »

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John Lennon • parole • Beatles • Mark David Chapman • prisoner

 Record 2.3M Crowd US Prisons 

Federal report describes system in crisis

Jun 12, 08 5:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - A record 7.2 million criminals were behind bars, on parole, or being supervised on probation in 2006—a figure that cost taxpayers $45 billion and has states rethinking sentencing laws and shipping inmates elsewhere, the Washington Post reports. Of that number, 2.3 million people were in jail or... More »

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crime • probation • parole • prisons • criminal justice system • Bureau of Justice Statistics • private prisons • Pew Center • California District Attorneys Association • incarceration

 No Lie: Polygraphs On the Rise 

Critics hold firm, but use of test growing nationwide

Mar 22, 08 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Despite lingering reservations about its effectiveness, the polygraph is gaining traction with law enforcement. The lie-detection program has spiked 53% in the last decade, and truth be told, just the threat of a test keeps convicts honest, drug addicts and sex offenders told the Wall Street Journal. “... More »

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Texas • Denver • Dallas • Houston • sex offenders • domestic violence • Oregon • parole • MRI • Colorado • polygraph • Klamath Falls • drug addicts • American Polygraph Association • Fifth Amendment

Packed Prisons 'Costly Failure'

Report calls for shorter sentences, quicker paroles, aid on release

Nov 20, 07 2:45 AM CST
(Newser) - America's prisons, crammed with 2.2 million inmates, are an expensive failure, according to a report by a Washington criminal justice research group. The JFA Institute calls for shorter sentences and parole terms, alternative punishments and decriminalizing recreational drugs—steps that would cut the prison population in half and save... More »

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Department of Justice • prison • parole • recreational drugs • JFA Institute • George Soros • Open Society Institute • James Austin • prison population

Would-Be Wallace Killer
Walks Free

Shooter served
35 years for 1972 assassination attempt

Nov 9, 07 10:50 AM CST
(Newser) - The man who tried to assassinate George Wallace in 1972 walked free from prison today after serving 35 years of his 53-year sentence. Arthur Bremer opened fire on the Alabama governor as he campaigned for president in Maryland, leaving him paralyzed. Before he died in 1998, the onetime segregationist wrote... More »

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Secret Service • Richard Nixon • parole • George Wallace • Arthur Bremer • George McGovern • assassination attempt

Parole Chief: Right Decision Made on Killers

Had no info that
burglar was 'cold, calculating predator'

Jul 26, 07 4:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Connecticut parole chief is under fire for releasing a burglar who’s now suspected of kidnapping and raping two sisters before murdering them, along with their mother. But Robert Farr is standing by his decision, claiming the board was missing facts at the time of the parole—and its... More »

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kidnapping • murder • rape • Connecticut • burglar • Robert Farr • parole

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