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For hours before he died in a northern Vermont prison this month, Kenneth Johnson struggled to breathe and begged for medical attention, according to a fellow inmate who was with Johnson that night. “He kept banging on the window for the nurse to do something about it — and they didn’t,” said the other inmate, Raymond Gadreault. Johnson, Gadreault and

It’s not enough that vigilantes go after people required to register as sex offenders and their families, some are now going after the scholars who do research and write about the topics related to anything sexually taboo. University of Texas professor Thomas K. Hubbard has become the target of protests and threats of violence because of his writings on age

A year ago we posted a warning about a lawyer from Texas, Teri Estes-Hightower, who was using the Florida Sex Offender’s registry to solicit people for a “class action” lawsuit in Florida against the registry. While this all sounded great to some who didn’t know better. Those with experience in registration matters and constitutional law saw this as a disaster.

News4Jax just posted a story in which their “crime and safety expert” Ken Jefferson (@kenjefferson_) made the FALSE claim that “Statistics have shown over 90% of sexual predators and offenders will reoffend,” That statistic is completely FALSE and inflammatory. The re offense rate of people required to register as sex offenders or sexual predators is lower than almost all other

The Supreme Court of the United States has refused to consider a 9th Circuit Court decision that, which upheld a decision that  homeless people have a constitutional right to sleep on public property outdoors if no other shelter is available to them. The case is Boise v. Martin, and the ruling of the appellate court was that the city may

Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia on Friday ordered the suspension of a policy that allows prison officials to strip-search children after an 8-year-old girl was told to remove her clothes before being allowed to see her father, an inmate. READ MORE An 8-year-old girl visiting her father at a Virginia prison was strip searched last month in violation of state