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“All Lives Matter.” That seems to be the catchphrase of the summer. It was started by the “Black Lives Matter” movement in response to police shootings of African American men for no apparent reason other than a prevailing sentiment (and, to be honest, prejudice) that the value of one race is less than another and killing them is justified because

RENO, Nev. (NEWS 4) — A nearly decade long battle started in Nevada after President George W. Bush signed the Adam Walsh Act in 2006. The federal law is also known as the Sex Offender Registration & Notification Act. It stemmed from the 1981 abduction and murder of 6-year-old Adam Walsh. In 2007, Nevada lawmakers passed Assembly Bill 579 to

Who says the registry is not punishment…..???   A clerical error resulted in a Texas couple having angry neighbors yelling outside their home, after postcards went out saying that a sex offender lived there. The notices, sent out by the Texas Department of Public Safety, went out to residents within a four block radius of the house where Michelle Swindle and her

The following blog post originally appeared at: http://sajrt.blogspot.com/2016/07/re-integration-risk-management-public.html?m=1   Recently, I have been in conversations with academics and professionals about the effectiveness of offender reintegration programmes, risk management and public protection. There seems to be an idea that “risk management” is an evil concept and a by-line for punitive state control, which is worrying. A notion that public protection means

The following is a summary from The Federal Defenders New York Blog.  It was posted on Wed. May 25, 2016. It was contributed by an FAC Board Member.   The Issue of Collateral Consequences is ‘catching the eye’ of federal judges.  When I attended the recent Federal Sentencing Conf. in Orlando, the federal judges more than once referenced the issue

The Nevada Supreme Court has put a stay on the implementation of a sex offender law. The law has been in limbo since 2007. That’s when state lawmakers approved a bill to comply with federal requirements of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act. Changes to the sex offender registry have been halted due to ongoing litigation. According to