The August rescue of Jaycee Dugard from the California property of a registered sex offender is among a number of recent cases nationwide that are demonstrating the difficulties faced by parole and probation officers. Included in the recent cases is the arrest of a registered sex offender in Cleveland after ...

The man accused of kidnapping and raping Jaycee Dugard and holding her captive for nearly two decades wrote an apology in a jailhouse letter that talks about "ending a sexual problem believed to be impossible." Phillip Garrido's handwritten letter, received Thursday by KCRA, did not mention Dugard ...

The man accused of kidnapping Jaycee Dugard and holding her captive for 18 years was improperly supervised during the 10 years he was under the jurisdiction of California parole authorities. So says the California inspector general, who documented his findings in a report released last week. Dugard was 11 and living ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California parole officials failed to properly supervise the rapist accused of kidnapping Jaycee Dugard and missed "numerous" clues during her 18 years of captivity, a prison watchdog said in a report released on Wednesday. The report by California's inspector general found that 58-year-old Phillip Garrido, who is charged with abducting Dugard, committed a series of parole ...