Author: FAC Contributor #1

As states reduce their prison populations, companies are finding new ways to profit off the criminal justice system. The United States is the world’s leader in incarceration. For nearly 40 years, the prison-industrial complex expanded without interruption and nearly every social problem in America was met with a hammer. Homelessness, mental illness, drug addiction and violent crime all carried criminal

“Despicable — not allowed to live on land or sea.” That was the reaction of Miami attorney Valerie Jonas when we shared yesterday’s Miami Herald article, titled “Can sex predators be banned from a Keys marina?“, with her. A Florida Keys marina wants to ban registered citizens from living at the marina and has asked City Attorney David Migut about

This story from South Florida of a man hunting down registered citizens and assaulting them at their doorsteps with a hammer has really gotten our attention this week. For one; it underscores the harm that the list can do to registered citizens and their families. Secondly; the charges that will be levied against the attacker in this case show society’s

As a registered citizen I didn’t sleep well last night. I could not get the thought of someone I don’t know showing up at my door ready to bash my head in when it opened. Since reading yesterday’s story in the Palm Beach Post titled, “Florida Man Attacks Sex Offender With Hammer” I’ve decided to do something about it. The

Whoever says the sex offender registry isn’t a vigilante hit list is delusional. After dozens of murders and hundreds (if not thousands) of assaults for nothing other than people being on a “list”, the public needs to recognize that the list is punishment. A virtual target on one’s back. Monday, in Clermont, FL, the Orlando Sentinel reports that the suspect,

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – In January Dean Dinnard was charged with sexual battery against a minor, and although those charges have since been dropped, the Fort Lauderdale man said the accusation cost him his job at a furniture rental company. Dinnard was accused of making a girl under 12 years old watch sexuality explicit videos, and having sex with her