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Catch and Release
California, using the term "realignment", chose to lessen the overcrowded prison population by paroling what corrections officials said were the least violent offenders on parole. Yet parole officers told KCRA that even sex offenders were now breaking the law - living with kids, near schools, even cutting off their GPS anklets - and facing no time in prison. Our investigation reviewed more than 8,000 parolees and their re-offenses over the last year. We also used internal sources to find that the state was preparing to review nearly ten thousand absconders in order to wipe them off the prison books.
Tags: Prison realignment; parole; sex offenders; parolees
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Adolfo's Story
Adolfo Davis has been in jail since the age of fourteen, sentence to life in prison without parole for murder. In Illinois, it's legal to question a fourteen-year-old without the presence of a defense attorney so long as a youth officer is present, and the child is made aware of his rights.
Tags: accountability; murder; drug territory; parole; probation officer; testimony; sentencing
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No room for sex offenders
"This story looks at residency restrictions imposted on sex offenders in the state of Oregon and addresses the issue of why parole officers frequently place offenders in student housing near large universities."
Tags: sex offenders; university; housing; students; campus;
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Question of Justice
A senior probation and parole officer obtained for her son a sentence of five and a half months of drug rehabilitation instead of the 20-years-to-life sentence standard for the Class A Felony he committed.
Tags: Probation; parole; meth; methamphetamine; stolen weapons; Class A Felony; parole officers
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Hotel Sex Offender
This investigation found nine registered sex offenders living in a downtown Buffalo hotel. Eight of them were classified as most likely to repeat their crimes. The offenders were placed in the hotel by state parole officers, but the public and hotel guests were not notified. One of the offenders worked as a hotel desk clerk. The investigation also discovered that Buffalo rarely sends out sex offender notifications.
Tags: sex offenders; parole; sexual assault; sex offender registry
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Sex Offender Central
Oklahoma state officials placed a probation and parole office, where sex offenders are required to check-in regularly, directly across the street from an elementary school. Not only does it violate the sex offenders' parole to visit the center, but it may also put the children at risk.
Tags: FOIA; freedom of information; sex crimes; sex offenders; school zone exclusion laws; education
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Criminal Justice Chaos
This story compilation addresses numerous problems within the Texas Department of Corrections. Investigators found violations of government policies, parole officers with disciplinary problems, repeated employee negligence and even some of the worst criminals slipping through holes in the system to find new victims.
Tags: Texas; department of corrections; criminal justice; courts; probation and parole; crime; law enforcement; prisons; public safety; criminals
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Corruption Probe at Parole Board
Hansen investigates just how credible criticism of Georgia's parole board actually is. Apparently, some parole board members were getting rich off private contracts and corrupting the agency. Bobby Whitworth, a member of Georgia's Board of Pardons and Paroles, along with Walter Ray, the current chairman of the parole board, are both under investigation for accepting tens of thousands of dollars in what critics call a bribe from Lanson Newsome, who wanted the two members to pass a law that would benefit his company.
Tags: Bobby Whitworth; Walter Ray; Lanson Newsome; Newsome's Detention Management Services; Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles; corrupt parole officers
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Killed By Parolees; Did Cornejo & Sons Contribute Illegally?; BOE settlement hidden
City Hall: Mayoral candidate's hidden history of domestic violence complaints; fraud and abuse in publicly funded job training program; misuse of travel funds by city officials; City Hall contract tampering; improper donations by a major city contractor. Parollees: More than two dozen Kansans had died at the hands of parolles in the past four years. Nearly, two-thirds who were killed were on at least their second chance at parole; more than a third of the parollees had broken contact with their parole officers before their arrest; and the state made little effort to find parollees who disappeared. School District: the Wichita school district kept a teach on the payroll eight years after the first complaints about is conduct with young teenage girls, they cloaked its settlement of his rape victim's lawsuit in secrecy.
Tags: City Hall; Parolees; Board Of Education; Kansas Legislature; Department of Corrections; Ethics Commission; Sexual Harassment; Bill Warren; Campaign Finance
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Injustice for all
John MacNeil was convicted of an execution stlye killing in 1968. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Despite this, MacNeil took advantage of the parole system and manipulated his way of prison again and again. The officer who was injured during the same shootout that ended MacNeil's life wants to know why. The story details how a career criminal could escape punishment so many times.