Author: FAC Contributor #3

Source: The Week Following are some excerpts from a great article on the private prison system. To read the entire article, click on the link above. Today, private prisons incarcerate about 9 percent of all U.S. prisoners, and 19 percent of all federal prisoners. About 75 percent of all immigrants detained by ICE are also in private prisons. CoreCivic has

This email was submitted by a member. If readers can help encourage the Lee County Sheriff’s office to take this concern seriously and investigate the source, it would be appreciated. [M]y Det. called me back later and said they called the number that had called me, and it was some sort of recording that they were a Sex Offender Registration

The Florida Action Committee has written a letter to the South Florida Gay News, a local publication servicing the LGBT community. SFGN’s recent coverage of The Pride Center’s employment of Clarence Collins, a person required to register as a sex offender, is shameful and in stark contrast to a series of commentaries by Chris Reina published in SFGN. Makes you

Two New Jersey registrants won an appeal after being retroactively forced to register for life. Both would have been eligible to be removed after 15 years, but a subsequent change in the law removed that opportunity. The Superior Court of New Jersey found the State changed the law retroactively, thereby changing the consequences of their guilty plea AND creating a

SOURCE: Honolulu Beat The most common misconception is that everyone on the list is a predator who poses a substantial risk to strangers. Sexual predators are in your neighborhoods and parks! This is the major takeaway from recent news reports about Hawaii’s sex offender registry. It makes for sensational copy, but it overlooks and ignores several serious problems with sex

A North Carolina appellate court ruled that a sex offender cannot be forced to wear a GPS monitoring device for 30 years because there is no evidence to show that GPS tracking protects the public. The Court of Appeals of North Carolina ruled that, “absent any evidence that satellite based monitoring is effective to protect the public from sex offenders,