With California’s overcrowded jails and prisons, it is often economical and logical to place people who are convicted of certain crimes on probation, rather than sending them committing them to their full sentence. In such cases, the convicted person (the probationer) is sentenced to jail or prison, but that sentence is suspended for a set […]
A parolee is back in police custody after sawing off his ankle monitoring bracelet, which constitutes a parole violation. Jonathan Schwartz allegedly sawed off the bracelet while riding on a commuter bus. Police was alerted when another passenger found the device and brought it to the Burbank police station. According to police the bracelet showed […]