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In 1996, a 19 year old woman was sexually assaulted and killed. Rodney Reed is currently on death row in Texas, having been convicted of the crime. He is scheduled to be executed on November 20th. He has maintained his innocence throughout. His lawyers with the innocent project have exculpatory evidence to prove Rodney did not commit the murder and

Dion Harrell spent two decades on New Jersey’s sex offender registry. He had trouble finding a job. He couldn’t be alone with his kids. For a time, he was homeless. But when a DNA test finally proved his innocence, the state had nothing to offer him for those years. State lawmakers could change that. A bipartisan bill (A1037) would allow people

Senator Brandes is sponsoring SB 560, the objective of which is “Renaming the Criminal Punishment Code as the Public Safety Code; revising the primary purpose of sentencing under the Public Safety Code from punishing an offender to public safety” This sounds like a great concept. Criminal Justice shouldn’t be about public safety! But will this bill, if passed, take into

Yesterday, the Florida Supreme Court heard oral arguments on whether 2018’s Ballot initiative, Amendment 4 (relating to restoration of voting rights to some convicted felons), could tie financial obligations to voting rights. They seemed inclined to say the state could. Last year, Florida citizens voted overwhelmingly in favor of a constitutional amendment that would automatically restore voting rights to ex-felons

Courtesy of our affiliates at Texas Voices, we are learning of a new scam targeting persons on the registry. People are receiving letters in the mail with no return address, but personalized to them. The letter demands payment of money via bitcoin or they will notify all their neighbors of their status, their employers, their family members’ associates, church congregation,

In the decade since the national shame of a colony of sex offenders made homeless by draconian residency restrictions, how far has the city and nation moved in finding humane and successful rehabilitation? Miami Law’s director of Tenants’ Rights Jeffrey Hearne parses the depressing lack of progress. https://soundcloud.com/user-312003365-898363102/s3-e12-bringing-sense-to-sex-offender-laws