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U.S. / NEWS Fri Jul 9, 2010 @ 9:06am neoform

CNN -- Parole officers saw and spoke to Jaycee Dugard during visits to the home of the man accused of holding her captive for 18 years, but they never questioned why she was there, California officials disclose in newly released documents... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jul 7, 2010 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- Charles Manson family acolyte Leslie Van Houten has been denied parole for the 19th time because she "still poses a risk to society," California authorities said... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 17, 2010 @ 3:02pm neoform

CNN -- Sentencing juvenile criminals to life in prison without parole is "cruel and unusual" punishment, especially when their crime is not murder, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Sep 3, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Former "Manson Family" member Susan Atkins, who stabbed actress Sharon Tate to death more than 40 years ago and is now terminally ill with brain cancer, has been denied parole. Atkins was 21 when she and other followers of Charles Manson participated in a two-night rampage that left seven people dead and terrorized the city of Los Angeles in August 1969... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Sep 2, 2009 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- A former "Manson family" member who stabbed actress Sharon Tate to death more than 40 years ago and is now terminally ill faces her 13th parole hearing on Wednesday. Susan Atkins, 61, has terminal brain cancer. As of earlier this year, she was paralyzed over 85 percent of her body and could not sit up in bed or be moved into a wheelchair, according to a Web site maintained by her husband and attorney, James Whitehouse... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Sep 2, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Phillip Garrido was a registered sex offender, required to meet with parole officers and fitted with an ankle bracelet to track his movements. Despite the close scrutiny, police say Garrido was able to kidnap 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991, rape her and father two children with her. Police say Dugard lived with her two daughters in Garrido's backyard... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 6, 2009 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- Susan Atkins, who stabbed pregnant actress Sharon Tate to death, will be considered for parole from prison a month after the 40th anniversary of a series of killings that cast a shadow of fear over southern California. Atkins has been denied parole in 17 previous hearings, but the former "Manson Family" member is now terminally ill with brain cancer and paralyzed... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jul 27, 2010 @ 3:03pm neoform

CNN -- John Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, is up for parole for the sixth time, just months short of the 30th anniversary of the former Beatle's death... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 3, 2007 @ 7:00am neoform

FOX News -- A schizophrenic who spent 22 years in prison for rape and was denied parole five times was cleared Monday after DNA evidence linked the crimes to another man. A judge threw out Anthony Capozzi's two 1987 rape convictions at a hearing and Capozzi, 50, i.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Nov 30, 2006 @ 2:13pm mrmdc

MSNBC -- A record 7 million people -- or one in every 32 American adults -- were behind bars, on probation or on parole by the end of last year, according to the Justice Department... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Oct 30, 2006 @ 12:54pm mrmdc

CNN -- Sex offenders on probation or parole in Tennessee are banned from Halloween costume parties this year and aren't allowed to put up decorations like jack-o-lanterns that might attract youngsters... Read More