The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery?

By Vicky Pelaez Human rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are calling a new form of inhumane exploitation in the United States, where they say a prison population of up to 2 million – mostly Black and Hispanic – are working for various industries for a pittance. For the tycoons who have invested in

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NH: A local lawmaker sponsors bills to protect convicted sex offenders

If anyone feels compelled to write a thank you message to this representative after reading the below story, here is his email information: Representative Timothy Robertson (d) Email: [email protected]       A local lawmaker has sponsored several bills in the N.H. House of Representatives that would increase protections for people on the state’s registry of sex offenders. Rep. Timothy

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Q: Where can I find more information about the registration restrictions?

FAC tries to make as much information about registration requirements as possible available on our site, floridaactioncommittee.org. Additionally, there are several online resources where you can find the information you are looking for. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement, who administers the registry, has a “Frequently Asked Question” page which answers a lot of the questions about the state-wide registry.

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Article equates sex offender registry to prison.

The following is an excerpt from a very insightful article by Maya Schenwar. The article, which discusses the “prison outside prison” world of electronic monitoring, house arrest and other forms of confinement outside of traditional prison, insight-fully equates the Sex Offender Registry to incarceration. —— Although the left-leaning among us may respond to secret data collection and hidden cameras with

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