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“So… nothing illegal or wrong happened in this incident. Everyone over-reacted and jumped to conclusions. The word sex offender was uttered and everyone lost their minds. In the end, nobody was charged with any kind of crime. I called it this way from the start” That was a comment posted under a story about a Michigan registered citizen who did

It’s looking like sex offenders in Indonesia are facing a new and invasive consequence; an implanted microchip that will track their activity. That’s what the news outlets are reporting, but the tone is “have these laws gone too far?” Indonesia already chemically castrates sex offenders, which has been considered sexual torture by some countries, but now wants to take it

Alissa R. Ackerman and Marshall Burns had a study published in the Spring 2016 issue of the Justice Policy Journal on how the government and media distort the statistics for recidivism and how those distorted statistics are derived. You can read the report here: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/distorted-statistics-on-recidivism-may-2016.pdf  

With the promise of saving taxpayer dollars to house a growing prisoner population during a cyclical crime wave in the early 1990s, Florida decided to experiment with private prisons. From the start, those involved in the push to privatize were tainted with ethical conflicts, and more than two decades later politics still rule the privatization issue while cost savings have

A registered sex offender wants the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate a North Carolina law that bans him from accessing Facebook and other social media sites, in Packingham v. North Carolina, No. 15-1194. Fifteen law professors, including former presidential candidate Lawrence Lessig and free speech guru Eugene Volokh, are supporting the First Amendment challenge in a friend of the court

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