Author: FAC Contributor #3

We’ve received a lot of positive feedback to our announcement of the billboard project. It was a lot more work than expected, but so is everything we’ve been trying to accomplish, so what’s the difference? We currently have three digital billboards running. Many of you have asked where you can find them, but we would like to let them run

Three survivors of sexual assault in federal prison described years of horrific abuse by prison staffers who used their unfettered access to vulnerable inmates and threatened them with retaliation if they reported the attacks. All three former inmates, their voices cracking with emotion, told a Senate investigative panel Tuesday that the federal Bureau of Prisons had failed them and often shielded

Several law-enforcement agencies Dec. 2 conducted unannounced checks of 40 registered sex offenders in Delaware County, finding that a high percentage were in compliance with their residential registration. During the survey, only one was found not in compliance with Ohio’s rules for registered sex offenders. Chief Deputy Jon Scowden, of the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office, said the checks were conducted

There is a prevailing narrative about crime that positions bad people as the problem and toughness — in the form of police and prisons — as the solution. It’s emotionally powerful, enough to make politicians allocate money for more cops and more jails in order to avoid being labeled weak, or worse, pro-crime. But policies like this have little if any

A lot of people contact FAC confused about how persons forced to register as sex offenders can be treated in a way that no other group can be. Try to prevent members of a particular race from living within exclusion zones in a city and see how quickly the protests erupt. Ban a particular religious group from public venues and

Last week, The Guardian called it “lifting the lid on a sexual abuse scandal”. A former Kansas City, Kansas police department detective Roger Golubski, who had spent 35 years with the police force, had spent decades sexually assaulting women in the community he served. Using his badge as a weapon, he intimidated and threatened his victims with arrest if they