Prison Legal News: The Cost of Prison Censorship: Florida Taxpayers to Pay $1.2 Million

Tallahassee, FL – On October 22, a federal district court in Tallahassee awarded almost $1.2 million in attorneys’ fees and costs in a censorship lawsuit against the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC). The lawsuit was filed in 2011 by Prison Legal News (PLN), a 72-page monthly publication that covers criminal justice-related issues; PLN is a project of the non-profit, Lake

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SOSEN: Survey of Halloween Restrictions Across the USA in 2019

Halloween is upon us once again, so that means the media is flooding viewers with sweeps week stories advertising sex offense registry maps and registry compliance checks on Halloween. (Patch dot com has already flooded news feeds with “Sex Offender Safety Maps” all month long.) Many of these stories are not inaccurate both regarding the danger registered persons actually pose

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Testing in Florida of backlogged rape kits leads to arrest of sex offender 27 years later

Fox News reports that testing in Florida’s Palm Beach County of 1,500 backlogged rape kits has led to the arrest of a registered sex offender for a 1992 rape. This story is shared for a couple reasons. First; for years there was a backlog of untested rape kits. Rather than applying resources into testing these kits and solving crimes, police departments

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Update in Butts County GA Halloween Sign Lawsuit

The following came from a Fox affiliate in Atlanta (https://www.fox5atlanta.com/) MACON, Ga. – In a hearing that lasted more than three hours, a federal judge heard testimony and arguments Thursday in a lawsuit by sex offenders against a middle Georgia sheriff’s office. “It’s a balancing test and that’s what makes this case so difficult,” said U.S. District Court Judge Marc

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UPDATED: NY Church cancels sex offender’s wedding

THIS STORY IS AMENDED. PASTOR RICK RESPONDED TO OUR POST (SEE COMMENTS) AND TO THOSE WHO WROTE HIM. I AM KEEPING THIS STORY UP BECAUSE THE REPORTING FROM THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER, THE POST STAR, RECOUNTS THE EVENTS DIFFERENTLY FROM PASTOR RICK AND PERHAPS THE REPORTER DESERVES THE FOCUS OF OUR EDUCATIONAL EFFORTS, NOT THE PASTOR. WE SINCERELY APPRECIATE PASTOR RICK’S

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