I was calling checking on some things today and talking with a staff person about parole violations. The person said sometimes they are so stupid! Told me about a person who got out, was doing very well, coaching little league baseball. The man picked up the bag of bats after the kids put the bats in. He was picked up and charged with having a weapon!! I was told there was community outcry on this one. It was in northern CA.

I have heard the parole violation is so strict in CA especially.

My husbands friend was picked up for being on the same side of a street to a women that was also on parole, he didn’t even know her but the Officer assured his parole officer they where talking I think he got a year but I’m not sure

Absolutely crazy and so scary for me as an English girl living in CA when my husband is released

i think i'll keep Josh at hope for the 3 years he'll be on parole. with any luck he will have a ready made job teaching yoga at my studio for Phat women. we have a ball and i wish i could share this with all my PTO friends! nothing like a bunch of differently-abled women getting together for a bunch of fun every morning. it really is a GREAT way to start the day. my little pugs running in and out of legs, women laughing, other women helping them get up after falling over in a pose, we have fun! some of the women come just to play with the pugs.

My bf was picked up on a parole violation for "being in the vacinity of known gang affliation"...and we were told the PO had been 'tipped off' and that's why they came out. Well, first off, we live in So. California and so "being in the vacinity..." is unavoidable! And as far as the 'tip off' goes...we were living appx. 100 miles from his last known address and didn't know anyone (but family) in the area. SO, who could've "tipped off" the parole office?? It's STILL a mystery to us and one that I doubt will EVER be explained....Parole is a tricky situation - with such a BROAD spectrum of possible violations, it's a wonder that ANYONE is ever discharged!

Oh wow, Alice-------I wanna come! Sounds fantastic!

pimakat .... I wish there was a documentary or something showing how parole violations go, and possible solutions. Ca needs to take a hard look at their prison spending!

don't let them find an old forgotten gun shell buried in a box in the garage somewhere and don't forget to remind your man's friends not to carry a side hanging (or pocket) knife. sometimes it's just that easy to catch a violation. don't just trip on the big things, it's usually what you least expect!

Goodpane

In Oregon they'll check the trash and if someone tossed a beer or booze bottle in there, they can violate a person even if they knew nothing about it, or if a bottle might get tossed in your yard by someone.

That sounds horrible, it's an outrage. (Not the yoga!) :-)

A friend of ours was sent back to prison for a year because his PO found a very old picture. It's a picture of our friend with his bestfriend with their hunting guns taken long time ago even before he went to prison. His PO said that he cannot possess any firearms and that the pics were taken recently.


Ana

Yea CA parole is very tight. My boyfriend was violated by being in someone else's car that had a controlled substance that didn't even belong to him. At the time he was going through chemo and when he took the drug test they found all his prescribed drugs in his system and even with a doctors note they still violated him

was it because of the drugs found in the car? rather than in his system?

GET

You are onto something! We need a documentary to show these things to the public!! Lots of these so called 'violations' ARE ridiculous! They end up up costing a bundle of taxpayer money. Maybe the taxpayers WOULD care!!
An example I know of:
NY will have spent (according to what they say it costs to house an inmate for a year) aproximately $320,000 to keep someone locked up who had never had a ticket/write up in prison, earned a four year college degree while there and had been totally clean on parole for two years, he was working full time, earning $25,000 a year, paying his taxes and minding his own business. The POs didn't really like that he was succeeding and one day they found an XX rated movie (in the home of a healthy, single 36 year old male mind you) and he got shipped back to a CF. (He's never had a write up or a ticket since going back in either.)
The state has paid out approximately $320.000.00 (and taken another 9 years of this man's life) because an employed taxpayer (who happened to be on parole) had a XX rated flick.
There seems to be so many with stories like these, it IS a good reason for a documentary. Sometimes students show up on the site here wanting to do a project for a class, maybe we should give them this idea next time we see one post.
Caprione

Maybe people should write out short versions of parole violation stories with names of inmates and PO's and dates in Ca and send them to Arnold and company and the DOC. I swear I could fix Ca if given the chance.

Great idea CET! I think that if we got together a bunch of parole violation stories and sent them to Arnold, he just might do something. The parole violations continuously cost our state tons of money each year, and are truly ridculous!