How Phillip Garrido got away with it…and what it says about California’s parolees

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Nov. 4, 2009

Today the California Inspector General releases the results of its 2-month study on how registered sex offender and parolee Phillip Garrido was able to keep young Jaycee Dugard locked up in his backyard for 18 years, in spite of dozens of opportunities law enforcement had to discover the kidnapping. Even with parole officers visiting Garrido’s house, no one seemed to have a clue that a woman was being held captive in the backyard. How big of an indictment of California’s entire parole system is the Garrido case?

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Pat Nolan, vice president of The Prison Fellowship

Michael from Orange
2 weeks, 2 days ago

Mr. Nolan is so right on track. It just shows how our conservative lawmakers, district attorneys and others in law enforcement are so off track. They put so many resources and effort into reacting to a few highly publicized cases that they forget or don't really care about the costs of their actions to society in other ways. They put in overkill solutions like three strikes laws that ultimately are of limited value as opposed to cost. Or law enforcement puts so much enforcement into minor issue that it leads to overlooked cases like Garrido ‘s. This Garrido case is a direct result of the broken parole system and the over burdened costly prison system and ineffective inefficient work by our law enforcement community. Ultimately this emphasis , control and power by our conservative lawmakers and law enforcement community devotes so much our state’s limited resources to law enforcement issues it takes away from other important areas we need to devote resources to such as our education system.

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