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Violation Ep 6: 'Your Life Is About To Change'

Violation Ep 6: 'Your Life Is About To Change'

Update: 2023-04-265
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Six months after Jacob Wideman was released from prison on home arrest, he appeared before the parole board for a routine check-in hearing. His parole officer told the board that Jake was doing well: Jake’s employers and therapists gave him positive reviews, as did the director at his halfway house and the landlord at his apartment complex.



But other people were coming to a different conclusion.



About a week before the hearing, Jake’s parole officer had told him that he had received complaints that Jake had committed numerous violations of the terms of his parole — violations that, if he had committed them, could cost him his freedom.



The officer also told him something that startled him: A private investigator could be watching him.



“It brought home to me the people who didn't want me to be out were keeping an exceptionally close eye on me, and that, you know, they were willing to go to some pretty drastic lengths to try to find ways to get me put back in prison,” Jake said later in an interview from prison.



Soon after that routine check-in hearing before the parole board, Jake was re-arrested.



In Part 6 of "Violation," we hear interviews and testimony from Jake, his attorneys, parole officials and others as we piece together the events leading up to the parole violation that sent Jake behind bars again — possibly for life.

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Yvonne villanueca

I couldn’t finish this podcast because it seems like you are coddling the killer and almost attacking the victim’s family every chance you get. I wonder how you would feel if this had happened to you. They lost their son and all you can do is criticize them. That’s why we have so many criminals because they are not treated as such. Pray to God this doesn’t happen to you. You must live in a sanctuary state or city. Guess you all haven’t learned from their failed policies.

Jun 20th
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Violation Ep 6: 'Your Life Is About To Change'

Violation Ep 6: 'Your Life Is About To Change'

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