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Beyond All Repair

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

Beyond All Repair

WBUR

Criminal Justice, True Crime

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

W-B-U-R Podcasts, Boston.

0:09.0

Last time, on violation.

0:10.0

How many people do you talk to adults in the world who say opening

0:14.8

a bank account is a lot of fun. In 2016, Jake Wideman got out of prison.

0:19.7

For me it was.

0:20.8

Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner, refers to it as quote,

0:24.0

mass supervision, the evil twin of mass incarceration.

0:28.6

What we know for sure is that the state treated Jake differently than most people on parole, very differently.

0:35.8

The question is, did the state treat Jake differently from other people on parole

0:40.2

because of pressure from the canes?

0:42.2

About a week before my first status hearing,

0:46.0

my parole officer actually made me aware

0:49.0

that there was a private investigator following me.

0:52.0

And so he went so far as to warn me that I should be prepared

0:58.0

just in case something came up that would cause them to arrest me right at the status hearing, right in the

1:05.1

hearing room, which was a pretty big shock to me. Six months after Jake Wideman got out of prison in May of 2017, his parole officer, Daniel Pareda, said he was doing great.

1:27.0

His employers...

1:30.0

They love them.

1:32.0

They spoke about... They loved them. Okay.

1:33.0

They spoke about them.

1:35.0

Okay.

1:36.0

The therapist in his mental health program.

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