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  • Domestic-Violence Threats Prompt Daylong Standoff Around Trailer Park
    Police surrounded a large North County mobile home park, fanned out en masse through surrounding areas and searched door-to-door for more than 15 hours today after a parolee-at-large allegedly threatened the lives of his ex-girlfriend her children, then opened fire on pursuing officers.
  • Earlier this year, prosecutors agreed to reduce Sara Kruzan’s first-degree murder charge to second-degree, which made her eligible for parole.
    Clemency Urged For Woman Who Killed Pimp
    Sara Kruzan has spent more than half her life in a Calif. prison for killing her pimp. Kruzan’s San Diego relatives and local advocates are pressing Gov. Jerry Brown to grant her clemency.
  • Chief Probation Officer Mack Jenkins
    State Realignment Floods County Jails and Probation Department
    San Diego County law enforcement is seeing more offenders being passed down from the state under realignment than expected. That’s affecting both the jails and the Probation Department.
  • Parole Agents To Track Sex Offenders on Halloween
    Parole agents and law enforcement officers will be out with the trick-or-treaters around California on Halloween. The goal is to check on sex offenders to make sure they’re complying with their parole.
  • Gov. Haley Barbour said in a statement that his decision to grant clemency was based upon the recommendation of the Mississippi's Parole Board in more than 90 percent of the cases.
    When Pardons Become Political Dynamite
    It's not uncommon for an outgoing governor or president to issue pardons at the end of his final term in office. But legal experts say that what former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour did contributes to a public perception that justice can be short-circuited.
  • Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in December. In the past year, banks in New York and around the country have announced tens of thousands of job cuts, as there isn't the same need for some financial services as before.
    Layoffs Hit Wall Street As Financial Needs Change
    Big banks announced around 60,000 job cuts in 2011. With businesses and consumers still focused on reducing debt, there isn't the same need for financial services as there was before, says one banking analyst. The outlook in the years ahead is for a smaller, more stable and less profitable industry.
  • Winifred Gallagher, author of the best-selling <em>Rapt</em>, argues that our need for novelty is hard-wired into our brains.
    Irresistible Novelties: The Allure Of The 'New'
    It isn't just crafty marketing that draws us to that newest gadget, restaurant or travel destination. According to Winifred Gallagher's latest book, we're biologically predisposed to be attracted to novelty and change.
  • San Diego Prison Escapee Captured In East County
    A convict who allegedly stole a fire engine to escape from Donovan State Prison on New Year's Day was captured late this morning at an East County trolley depot.
  • Donovan State Prison
    Prison Crisis: Parole, Rehabilitation, Reentry
    In the fourth installment of our series on California prisons, we'll be discussing the problems with the parole system, and discussing how to reduce the high recidivism rate through rehabilitation and reentry programs.
  • Family Of Murdered SDSU Student Wants Killer To Remain In Prison
    Today marks the 25th anniversary of the murder of a San Diego State student by an on-duty California Highway Patrol officer who will face a parole board at a state prison in a few weeks.
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