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Three men assaulted and beat another man simply because he was listed on the sex offender registry. On August 18th police responded to a hospital in Flint, Michigan where a man reported that three men from his neighborhood beat him solely because of his presence on the registry. Source Also this week, an incarcerated registrant was murdered in Kentucky. Source

The following was a series of posts from Phil Locke on The Wrongful Convictions Blog. The series was very well documented and contained links to a bunch of useful information, so I decided to copy and paste it as-is into our site in order to share the information. The source for these articles can be found here. The History of

A few years ago, when a city publicly announced it was considering banning “sex offenders” from a buffer zone around schools, parks, etc. the public was universally on board. Things have apparently changed in the past few years, as more people are becoming informed and citizens see how ineffective and problematic these restrictions have become in neighboring cities. This weekend;

The title to this post is an excerpt from a well written article entitled, “My Turn: State officials must accept that sex offenders can change” that appeared in the Concord Monitor. The article correctly points out that the money to be made from the false belief that sex offenders never change is significant. The money trail is found in all

Since 1994, when Congress first ordered states to create sex offender registries, the laws in the United States about sex crimes have steadily ratcheted up. We now have what experts say is the most draconian regime in the world. As we’ve tried to show in Slate this week, legislators have repeatedly expanded the definition of a sex offender, extended the

Source   Steve Blow and Josh Gravens are two of my new heroes. I met them both when I went to Dallas three weeks ago to speak at the Reform Sex Offender Laws convention. Gravens is a sex offender who also spoke at the convention. I went with him to see what it’s like to register and that became a story in itself. Blow is a