AU: Inside an innovative program helping sex offenders reintegrate into society – and why it works

May 11, 2020, 7:50 pm In recent years, the biggest increases in Australia’s prison population have come from people convicted of sexual offences. From 2017-18, this segment of the prison population increased by 10%. The following year, it

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Psychology Today: Do Sex Offenders Have A Mental Illness?

May 12, 2020, 12:49 pm NOTE: As we’ve come to know from Smith v. Doe, Psychology Today is a lay magazine that will pretty much print anything. The following article was published in Psychology Today. Sexual offenders have

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PA: Another case finds Pennsylvania registry violates state and federal ex post facto prohibition

May 12, 2020, 1:05 pm In an opinion issued yesterday in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, a person forced to register as a sex offender had the registry declared unconstitutional as applied to him, an individual whose offense

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American Registrant Denied Entry into Philippines

May 12, 2020, 2:55 pm The Philippines Bureau of Immigration announced that an American national previously convicted of rape was barred entry into the country. The 61 year old man was detained upon arrival at Naia airport on

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Mental Health Screening.

May 12, 2020, 5:25 pm May is Mental Health Month and today mental health is more important than ever. Our world has been turned upside down and we are all facing anxiety, loneliness, isolation and sadness.  The challenges we

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NC: Win in North Carolina for Out of State registrants

May 13, 2020, 8:39 pm Out of State registrants in North Carolina and attorney Paul Dubbeling were handed a win yesterday in Federal Court, when the Judge granted summary judgement in their favor! The lawsuit, “concerns a discrete

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Miami, state evict homeless amid COVID-19 pandemic. What were they thinking?!

May 14, 2020, 10:58 pm Obviously, there was a failure to communicate. In a blatantly thoughtless act, workers showed up Wednesday morning at a long-standing homeless encampment under an Overtown overpass, posted a metal sign in the ground

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NE: Groups call on Governor to suspend in person registration

May 14, 2020, 10:52 pm The Nebraska Criminal Defense Attorneys Association (NCDAA) and ReConnect, Inc., have teamed with Nebraskans Unafraid (NU) to call on Gov. Ricketts to temporarily suspend in-person reporting requirements for registered people during the pandemic.

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Release Shadow Prisoners to Prevent Covid-19 Deaths

April 28, 2020, 5:05 pm The Coronavirus pandemic is a global emergency. People confined against their will in high concentrations at close proximity in notoriously overcrowded facilities are extremely vulnerable to this invisible, quickly spreading threat. Civil rights

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ACSOL Challenges In-Person Registration in Federal District Court

April 28, 2020, 5:55 pm The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) filed a lawsuit today in a federal district court challenging in-person registration requirements of both the City of Fresno and the County of Fresno. The

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CO: 78-year-old man jailed for failure to register died from COVID-19

May 1, 2020, 10:44 pm A lawsuit has been filed against Weld County Sheriff Steve Reams after a 78 year-old man who was jailed in March for failure to register as a sex offender contracted Coronavirus and died

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First Miami-Dade Inmate to Die of Coronavirus was in Jail for Failure to Register as Sex Offender

May 4, 2020, 1:15 pm Charles R Hobbs Jr. is the first Miami-Dade jail inmate to die from the virus. He was in jail awaiting trial after being arrested for failure to register as a sex offender. The

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New USSC Research Report Examines Effects of Prison Length on Recidivism

April 29, 2020, 11:16 pm The report empirically explores three potential relationships that may exist: Deterrent: As the prison length increases, the likelihood of recidivism decreases. Criminogenic: As the prison length increases, the likelihood of recidivism increases. No Effect: No

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Will someone please correct this journalist?!?

November 17, 2019, 6:48 pm Yuma, Arizona’s NBC News 11 just posted a horribly misleading article titled, “Released to Reoffend: News 11 investigates the sex offender next door.” The irresponsible news story makes the absurdly inaccurate statement that

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IL: Win – Federal Judge says internet case can proceed

September 26, 2019, 5:11 pm A Federal Judge in the Northern District of Illinois has DENIED the IL Department of Correction’s Motion to Dismiss in a case challenging the DOC’s policy of restricting internet access to parolees. The

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Must Listen: Michigan ACLU’s Miriam Aukerman on the broken sex offenders registry.

August 30, 2019, 11:17 am In May, a federal judge gave Michigan lawmakers 90 days to overhaul the state’s sex offender registry law. That ruling came after a 2016 federal appeals court decision that found the sex offender

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Wisconsin, Illinois sued over prohibition on name changes for persons required to register as sex offenders

May 1, 2019, 10:53 pm Attorneys sued Wisconsin and Illinois Wednesday over laws that forbid transgender individuals from changing their names if they have certain criminal convictions. Both federal lawsuits argue that the states are violating free speech

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ID: Sex offenders ask court to revive Idaho registry lawsuit

May 8, 2019, 1:46 pm A group of 134 sex offenders have asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court to revive their lawsuit against the state of Idaho because they say they were denied their constitutional rights when they

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Weekly Update 2019-05-07 (Recording ID# 26)

May 9, 2019, 11:14 pm Dear Members and Advocates, Legislative session is over and the one bill we were concerned about is dead. The last action on House Bill 987 is that it is “indefinitely postponed and withdrawn

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Reason: Florida Is Creating a New Sex Offender Registry Just for Prostitution Customers

May 10, 2019, 3:32 pm Florida lawmakers just voted to create a public registry of people caught paying or attempting to pay for sex. After an initial defeat in the Florida House of Representatives, the registry—arguably the worst

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