To rejoin society, ex-offenders need a place to live.

Baptist minister Glenn Burns calls the evening of April 7, 2016, the “crucifixion.” It was the toughest test of his 40-year career. Burns leads a Christian social services ministry in northern Florida called the Good Samaritan Network. Until last April, the nonprofit was headquartered in the town of Woodville, just outside Tallahassee. Its food bank served 7,000 people a month.

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Off-Broadway’s America Is Hard to See Shines Light on Life Inside Miracle Village

Life Jacket Theatre Company, the team behind the acclaimed show Gorey, is set to debut its newest work, America is Hard to See, at the HERE Arts Center Off-Broadway this month. The new play by Travis Russ with music by Priscilla Holbrook is woven together from interviews and research conducted in Florida’s Miracle Village, a rural community for sex offenders.

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Pastor Patti Appurlee featured in UK Story on Second Chance Sex Offenders

Most parents want their children to find a loving, happy and healthy relationship with someone who treats them respect, and Patti Appurlee believes her daughter Lexi, 25, has found a man who fits that description. Patti describes Lexi’s boyfriend Chris, 26, as hardworking, respectful and ‘one of the best young men I’ve ever met’, and the pair are considering starting

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Lawyers’ group slams U of C’s ‘de facto expulsion’ of sex offender

The Criminal Trial Lawyers’ Association is slamming what it says is the “de-facto expulsion” of convicted sex offender __________ from the University of Calgary. __________ was sentenced to prison for sexual interference with a 13-year-old girl, but his sentence, handed down in a Kamloops, B.C., courtroom, was delayed so he could finish his classes at the U of C. That

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SCOTUS refuses to hear PA case that found sex offender registry punishment.

The Supreme Court of the United States today denied a petition from the Cumberland County District Attorney’s Office to review a July decision from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that found the state’s current sex offender registration law was punishment and therefore could not be applied retroactively under ex post facto constitutional grounds! The ruling from the court was brief: PENNSYLVANIA

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ClearMyCase suit DISMISSED!

We are pleased to have learned that Judge Dimitrouleas DISMISSED the lawsuit filed against us by ClearMyCase. For some time we’d been receiving complaints from FAC members and registrants from other states about a company out of Texas called ClearMyCase.com. The company had been using the State Sex Offender registries as a mailing list to solicit “fees” to help “de-register”

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