By San Stanton, Sacramento Bee

For nearly a year after Phillip Garrido was put on supervised parole in California in 1999, parole agents never bothered to visit him at home.

They did not perform the standard parolee interview, assess him or check his living arrangements, as is routine.

Phillip Garrido

And although GPS monitoring showed he was spending large amounts of time in his Antioch-area backyard, there’s no evidence parole agents ever investigated why.

That yard is where authorities say he kept Jaycee Lee Dugard captive for 18 years after allegedly kidnapping her in 1991 when she was 11.

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