Banished: A mini-documentary on Miracle Village
Watch the video on Miracle Village. A small community of sex offenders living in a remote village near Pahokee, FL because there is nowhere else for them to go.
Read moreWatch the video on Miracle Village. A small community of sex offenders living in a remote village near Pahokee, FL because there is nowhere else for them to go.
Read moreSource: USA Today CLEARWATER, Fla. – Not only have Central Florida law enforcement officers violated federal rules in conducting “To Catch a Predator”-inspired sex stings, but WTSP in Tampa has learned they may also violate longstanding federal law that prohibits the use of military resources to enforce state laws. While Tampa Bay-area law enforcement agencies refuse to turn over public
Read moreThis past Sunday another Sun-Sentinel Sex Offender story came out. This time the concern is that Broward county sex offenders who are registering as homeless are not truly homeless. They are now promising to dig in, find them, charge them with new crimes and put them in jail or back on the streets where they are supposed to be. It’s
Read moreOn Thursday, Joseph Goldstein of the New York Times reported that “Dozens of sex offenders who have satisfied their sentences in New York State are being held in prison beyond their release dates because of a new interpretation of a state law that governs where they can live.” In short, since 2005, sex offenders in the state can’t live within 1,000 feet
Read moreIf Mart city employee Lonnie Green’s saga of triumph, despair and desperation demonstrates anything, it’s that justice is often blind in how it’s meted out. This can be particularly true when it concerns sexual offenses, which American society rightly abhors and condemns. Yet there’s a big difference between foolish teens having consensual sex and, say, a middle-aged teacher, pastor
Read moreSource Child-porn sentencing questioned Are federal sentencing guidelines for possessing child pornography too harsh? Calling the guidelines “draconian,” U.S. District Judge James L. Graham has become increasingly vocal in his criticism from the federal bench in Columbus. Possessing child porn is vastly different from distributing or producing it, Graham said in an interview last week. “The purveyors or
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