Jaros II was the inhabited second planet in its star system. In the 2360s, this planet was home to a Starfleet stockade. Sometime during that decade, Ensign Ro Laren of the USS Wellington was court martialed for disobeying direct orders on an away mission to Garon II. Her disobedience was alleged to have led to the deaths of eight of her crewmates. At her court martial, Ro refused to speak in her defense, and the court found her guilty. She was imprisoned in the stockade on Jaros II until her release in 2368. Her advice that same year was that if one was sent to the Jaros II stockade, a room in the east wing was preferable to one on the west, as the latter became "awfully hot in the afternoon." (TNG: "Ensign Ro" )