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A tangle of laws keeps many offenders from finding homes By Cynthia Calkins, PhD, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Robert Beattey, JD, Graduate Center at City University of New York July/August 2017, Vol 48, No. 7 Print version: page 33 In 2009, Patrick James Werner began preparing for his release after serving 10 years in prison for the

The following are notes from The Twenty-Sixth Annual National Seminar on Federal Sentencing sponsored by the Tampa Bay Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, (www.NACDL.org) The Criminal Law Section of the Federal Bar Association, and the Criminal Justice Section of The American Bar Association (www.americanbar.org/crimjust) The seminar took place June 28-30th and was

FAC has reported a public health and safety concern to the Broward and Miami-Dade County Health Departments, the Florida Department of Health, the US Department of Health and Human Services and OSHA. The letter, which can be read below, seeks to end the practice of forcing thousands of individuals who are labeled sex offenders to to live like animals in

Cradling a heavy box of Budweiser against his flour-dusted apron, Mario Medina clicks open the door and greets two waitresses behind the counter at La Cascada, a retro Cuban pizza parlor in Northwest Miami-Dade. Besides the voice of a sports commentator on the TV and sporadic blips from arcade games in the back, the restaurant is quiet, and all five

Uncommon perspective:  A woman writes about life on the sex offense registry.  Found on the internet, four interesting essays by Sonia Van den Broek – let’s hope she is well and thriving.  Have a look!   -Bill Dobbs, The Dobbs Wire       CounterPunch | July 27, 2012 The Self-Identity of a Sex Offender   By Sonia Van den Broek  

And we called it perfectly! Last week when the city of San Diego refused to repeal their Sex Offender Residence Restriction, we presumed that Attorney Janice Bellucci would be printing off a complaint within minutes… and she was. Yesterday, she filed a lawsuit in Federal Court against the City challenging the constitutionality of the SORR. The State Supreme Court had