Author: FAC Contributor #3

The Palm Beach Post reported yesterday that a 32 year old man who last year plead guilty to the lewd or lascivious battery of a 12-year-old died while in a medium-security lockup. Authorities are investigating the cause of his death. The number of reported deaths behind bars of people convicted or accused of these offenses is growing. If you have

Carol Nesteikis, 66, has never committed a crime. But for two years, from six in the evening to six in the morning the next day, she lived under de facto house arrest with her 32-year-old son, Adam. It wasn’t because she wanted to. The home itself was a kind of punishment, she says. Adam was sentenced to 10 years on

If you get a call from someone claiming to be from the Sheriff’s office telling you that there’s a warrant out for you and you can avoid arrest buy showing up somewhere or paying a sum of money, you should hang up, call the police and INSIST on filing a police report. No matter how much we warn of this,

A few months ago we wrote about 19 residents of Wayside Cross ministries (see here and here) who were nearly evicted from their home because the city sought to evict them claiming the men who were required to register as sex offenders were living too close to a playground. So far, the civil rights attorneys representing the 19 individuals were

Wisconsin Republican Rep. James Sensenbrenner, one of the most influential members of Congress on criminal justice issues, will not seek re-election next year after four decades on Capitol Hill. In recent years, Sensenbrenner was best known in criminal justice circles for advocating the 2006 Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, which includes the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act