Inmate says in letter that he killed 2 molesters in prison

Watson, who is serving a life sentence for a 2009 murder conviction, wrote that six days after he arrived at the prison, a child molester moved into the pod. Watson believed the man began taunting other inmates by watching children’s television programming. “I could not sleep having not done what every instinct told me I should’ve done right then and

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MO: Marion County Sheriff Warns of Scam Targeting Sex Offenders

I know we’ve warned, and warned, and warned, and warned, but I worry that if we don’t keep putting this out there someone will miss it and there goes thousands of dollars… The latest telephone scam making the rounds in Missouri is targeting registered sex offenders. The Marion County Sheriff’s Office, along with the Missouri Sex Offender Registry has received

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Florida can’t bar felons from registering to vote over fees and fines, court rules

Florida cannot bar felons who served their time from registering to vote simply because they have failed to pay all fines and fees stemming from their cases, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Tallahassee federal judge’s preliminary injunction that the implementation of Amendment 4 – approved overwhelmingly

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