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Charles Manson: I'm a Very Dangerous Man

He admitted to 5 murders to psychologist, parole hearing told

(Newser) - Corrections officials in California quoted Charles Manson's own words when they denied him parole for a 12th time yesterday . "I am special. I am not like the average inmate. I have put five people in the grave," Manson told a prison psychologist late last year, according to...

Manson Denied Probable Last Shot at Parole

Mass murderer's next chance won't come until he's 92

(Newser) - Charles Manson was denied parole today, for the 12th—and probably final—time. After today's rejection, California can deny Manson parole for another 15 years, the AP notes, at which point the mass murderer would be 92 years old. Manson himself skipped the parole hearing, but Debra Tate, the...

Cannibal Model Omaima Nelson Seeks Parole
 Cannibal Model Seeks Parole 
Oct 4, 2011 11:58 PM CDT

Cannibal Model Seeks Parole

Omaima Nelson killed, ate husband in 1991

(Newser) - Twenty years after she spent Thanksgiving weekend dining on her husband's ribs cooked barbecue-style, Omaima Nelson is seeking release from a California prison. The Egyptian-born former model—who had been married to her husband for less than a month when she killed him, dismembered him, and ate parts of...

LA to State: We Can't Watch All These Cons

California dumps responsibility onto county, city

(Newser) - The good news for California is that its state prison system has a lot fewer prisoners and parolees to deal with. The bad news, according to the mayor and police chief of Los Angeles, is that crime on the streets is going to rise. The state last weekend shifted responsibility...

Hundreds of Violent Calif. Inmates Freed by Mistake

High error rate found in unsupervised parole system

(Newser) - California has been ordered to release tens of thousands of prisoners over the next two years to relieve overcrowding, but it's already failing to release inmates safely, according to the state's inspector general. Some 450 inmates "with a high risk of violence" were mistakenly released on unsupervised...

Quadriplegic Rapist Denied Parole

Calif. board rejects first inmate considered under medical parole law

(Newser) - A convicted rapist paralyzed from the neck down after he was stabbed by another inmate a decade ago has been denied parole in California. Steven Martinez was the first inmate to be considered for medical parole under a new state law aimed at saving the expense of providing medical care...

Dad: If My Son's Murderer Is Paroled, I'll Kill Him

RI child killer may win early release

(Newser) - The father of a boy murdered in Rhode Island 36 years ago says he will kill his son's murderer if he wins early release. Michael Woodmansee killed 5-year-old Jason Foreman in 1975. He kept the boy's shellacked bones in his bedroom for years, only confessing to the killing in 1982,...

Lennon's Killer Almost Picked Johnny Carson, Liz Taylor

Mark David Chapman settled on 'accessible' Beatle

(Newser) - Mark David Chapman considered killing Liz Taylor or Johnny Carson, he told a parole hearing earlier this month. There were other names on his hit list but he can no longer remember them, Chapman revealed. "I lose memory of perhaps the other two," he said, according to a...

John Lennon's Killer Denied Parole Again

Mark David Chapman will stay at Attica

(Newser) - It's been 30 years since John Lennon was shot to death outside his New York apartment, and in that time his killer has applied for parole six times. Once again, his plea for release has been rejected. Mark Chapman, now 55, was given a 20-years-to-life sentence for the December 1980...

Peru Paroles American Lori Berenson

New Yorker has been jailed 15 years for helping guerrillas

(Newser) - Peru has granted parole to Lori Berenson, an American who has spent the last 15 years in prison on charges that she helped leftist guerrillas, reports Reuters . An appeal is expected, but Berenson is expected to be released tomorrow. The former New Yorker, now 40, was jailed after moving to...

Malcolm X Killer Gains Parole
 Malcolm X Killer Gains Parole 
Apr 27, 2010 1:23 PM CDT

Malcolm X Killer Gains Parole

Thomas Hagan, 69, had been on work release

(Newser) - The last of the men convicted in Malcolm X's assassination has been paroled after 44 years in prison. Thomas Hagan, 69, hadn't been spending a ton of time in prison anyway; in 1992 he entered a full-time work-release program that let him spend 5 days a week at home with...

Lockerbie Bomber Still Alive
 Lockerbie 
 Bomber 
 Still Alive 



NOT-SO-TERMINAL ILLNESSES
Feb 15, 2010 5:43 PM CST

Lockerbie Bomber Still Alive

Three-month life expectancy was only an approximate, says Scot minister

(Newser) - Scotland caused international outrage when it released Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi to Libya on compassionate grounds because he had only three months to live. That was six months ago. While the convicted terrorist continues to call Scotland twice monthly as per the terms of his parole, Justice Minister Kenny...

Phillip Garrido Irked Over Ankle Monitor in '08

Alleged Jaycee Dugard kidnapper pointed to 19-year clean record

(Newser) - Phillip Garrido complained in 2008 about having to wear a monitoring device because he had not been in trouble with the law for 19 years—nearly as long as he allegedly held Jaycee Dugard captive. Some 120 pages of newly released parole records paint a portrait of a convicted rapist...

Panel Urges Manson Family Member Be Paroled

Bruce Davis may be freed after 38 years

(Newser) - One of the lesser-known members of the Manson family has been recommended for parole after serving 38 years for his part in two murders. A prison panel made the recommendation yesterday for Bruce Davis—convicted of the murders of musician Gary Hinman and ranch hand Donald "Shorty" Shea—after...

Onion Field Killer Denied Parole

Cop-killer Gregory Powell, 76, refused release for 11th time

(Newser) - The cop-killer whose crime 47 years ago was made famous by the book and movie The Onion Field was denied parole for the 11th time yesterday. Gregory Powell—who kidnapped two LAPD officers and killed one in 1963—told the California panel he was a changed man and wanted to...

Calif. Parole Bungled Jaycee Case
Calif. Parole Bungled
Jaycee Case
Nov 4, 2009 3:58 PM CST

Calif. Parole Bungled Jaycee Case

Watchdog says Dugard could've been found long ago

(Newser) - Jaycee Lee Dugard could have been found and Phillip Garrido put behind bars much sooner if California parole officials had done their jobs properly, a report by a state prison monitor says. For starters, authorities did nothing when Garrido’s electronic monitor showed he’d traveled further from his home...

Garrido's 1976 Victim Attends Jaycee Hearing

Katie Callaway Hall 'here because he kidnapped, raped me'

(Newser) - A woman kidnapped and raped by Phillip Garrido unexpectedly visited the Bay Area to watch a court hearing for Garrido, who stands accused of the kidnapping and rape of Jaycee Lee Dugard. Garrido abducted and assaulted Katie Calloway Hall in 1976, but was released on parole in 1988. Hall says...

Dying Ex-Manson Disciple Atkins Denied Release

Parole board refuses Susan Atkins' request for mercy

(Newser) - California yesterday rejected Susan Atkins' plea for compassionate release, the Los Angeles Times reports. The former Charles Manson family member—California's longest-serving female inmate—has brain cancer and likely has just months to live. Atkins was busted in 1969 for participating in the murder of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and...

Scotland Defies US, Releases Lockerbie Bomber

(Newser) - The only person convicted in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland, has been released on compassionate grounds and will return to Libya, reports the BBC. Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was sentenced to life for the murder of 270 people, but he is suffering from prostate cancer...

Chubby Thug Bada-Binged From Mob Eateries

(Newser) - A chubby mobster has been barred from eating at New York restaurants known as Mafia hangouts, reports the New York Post. Anthony "Fat Tony" Rabito, 75, was just paroled on gambling, extortion, and racketeering charges, and he can no longer chow down at a string of wise guy spots,...

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