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Daniel Walker, was 18 when he was convicted of raping a 17 year old he said was his girlfriend at the time. Fast forward 24 years and he is a 42 year old man who was just sentenced to a minimum of  two years and four months in prison and a maximum of five years and four months for visiting

John Oliver took on the crisis of Coronavirus spreading in Prisons across the United States.

You won’t believe the absurdity of this one… The Illinois Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a man who entered a public park to retrieve his son. Patrick Legoo had a 2006 conviction for a sexual offense. A decade later he rode his bicycle into a park to tell his son, who was there watching a game, that it was

The “sex offense legal regime,” which has developed alongside mass incarceration over the last forty years, has failed. US sex offender registries now list nearly one million people. Federal, state, and local ordinances prohibit convicted sex offenders from living within a certain distance of schools, parks, day care centers, and other spaces where children might congregate. In places like Miami–Dade

A peculiar dispute between two South Florida neighbors came before the Fourth District Court of Appeal on Wednesday when it found that a registered sex offender’s three-year “campaign of harassment” against the couple next door violated his probation and warranted a prison sentence. The case drew conflicting opinions from the appellate panel as two judges found the defendant Scott Johnstone’s behavior fell under Florida’s stalking statute but a

The “doxxing” of police officers mentioned in this article is of interest to me and perhaps it will be to others as well.  There are parallels between doxxing and the registry. We know firsthand the struggle to live in relative safety. This story by no means satisfies. Nurtured resentments never fulfill their promise. As a registered citizen I fear for anyone subjected