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MINNEAPOLIS – A federal judge has ruled that Minnesota’s sex offender treatment program is unconstitutional, but has deferred any immediate action to await further proceedings on a remedy. U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank largely sided with the more than 700 residents who were civilly committed to the Minnesota Sex Offender Program after they completed their prison sentences. Their lawyers argued

OVIEDO, Fla. —A teacher at Hagerty High School, in Oviedo, was arrested Friday by federal agents on child pornography charges. According to a complaint filed in federal court, the FBI began investigating Greg Vaughn, a social studies teacher, in May for an alleged online relationship he had with a 17-year-old girl in Castle Rock, Colorado. Vaughn met the girl in

This coming October a new bill will become law. The bill was an “anti human trafficking” bill, which is good, but the way it goes about reducing human trafficking is by increasing the penalties for prostitution. A first-time “John” will now get a first degree misdemeanor instead of the prior second degree. Spend a minimum of 10 days in jail,

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A captive market, no competition and government contracts that make monopoly-enabled price gouging the industry standard — it’s never been in doubt that the prison phone business is a very profitable model. A presentation that the privately-held prison telecom company Securus made to investors that The Huffington Post obtained shows just how much money there is to be made as

Last month the state of Washington contracted with the GEO Group, one of the largest for-profit prison companies in the U.S., to move up to 1,000 inmates from the state’s overcrowded prisons to its correctional facility in Michigan, thousands of miles from their homes and families. This makes family visits and connection with the community harder, though studies show that inmates