I am of the belief that this country truly believes in 'second chances'. One tries to allow all to right lives and become better members of society. Surely that is carried out daily with the release from prisons, individuals who are paroleed back into the community early, to jump-start their new place in society. The state allows one to serve rest of 'time' in the community, rather than in the nick. WITH CONDITIONS.
There is a not so lovely lady who lived, lives in a unit at the Linda Villa, who was, is on parole. Since one of the conditions of parole is for the parole department to know where the lady lives, one assumes that they know where she now calls home. I was rather naive in believing that the California Parole Department was going to be of help in dealing with one under their charge who has gone off the rails in the community.
Repeated calls to the supervising parole agent and to his supervisor have not brought closure to a problem that need not have gone this far down the road. Not even reporting the heavy use of alcolol by the parolee makes a difference.
Wanting to end a horrid rental, a deal was struck with the lady to move on. Condition of the deal was that all of furniture would be removed and the keys to the unit returned to the rental office. The was to be done by the end of the business day, January 5, 2010. It is now January 15, 2010 and there is no closure in sight.
How much better can a deal get? You forgive rent owed, do not file an eviction, or ask for court costs to be added to rent owed. Bad language is suffered along with drinking alcohol from large cans. As more alcohol is taken in, the level of language becomes rougher and the noise factor higher. No effort is made on the part of the departing parolee to be considerate to any round her. The not so lovely lady can threaten folks, out sex offenders(registered and legal) associate with felons and destroy the peace and quiet all round her.
I have spoken with parole department, and was under the impression that this matter would be tended to. Now I hear the lady throw the names round of the very persons I have spoken to and claim that they told her that she can do as she pleases and I am just a draconic old geezer who pesters them in their offices. Mind, along with the filthy language, the lady in question is not above colouring her story to suit her drama. The bother to be got from all of this being that whole clothe is not being presented here and many will believe her claims.
One last time, I am going to try and get the parole department to do something to bring an end to this drama. Surely they must have her listed as living at another location and know full well that this lady is just creating problems for law abiding citizens and ruining chances of another parolee being given the opportunity to live here. I will ring up the supervisor and make the case again for closure, if nothing is done, I will start contacting folks in Sacramento. There has to be better control on individuals allowed out on parole.
California might well be short of cash and loathe to put parolees back into the nick, but one would think that the system would work better to protect folks who have done nothing wrong. Why allow one person to keep doing harm? In large part, the problems are civil with the lady, but her conditions of parole are not being met. That is a different matter, added to verbal threats by the lady to do harm to one.
If the drama would just end...
All of the above is the stated opinion of this old geezer, like a bum, we all are entitled to have one. I have no desire to cause grief to public employees. Mind, they draw a pay packet from the public purse and in these hard economic times facing the state with some being forced to take cuts, one would think they would perform jobs more brilliant. One would also assume that a person on parolee would be taken to task if the conditions and spirit of parole release are not followed. A lot of assumptions for one to make and one can get into trouble there.
It just seems so unfair that economic hardship can follow in the wake of a parolee and there is no effort to right the wrongs done. More's the pity that.
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