Foreign

Here’s an interesting case out of the UK (where noticeably a lot of “sex offender” news stories are coming lately). It’s a case that challenges our understanding of justice, rehabilitation, and the labels we assign people. A man was convicted for possessing indecent images of children. A serious, serious crime. However, the unsettling detail is that the man was 18

Britain is considering mandating the use of chemical castration for sex offenders under an overhaul of the justice system aimed at freeing up more space in its overcrowded prisons. One of the first acts of the Labour government in July was to announce plans to release more prisoners early to tackle a crisis of overcrowding in jails which ministers said

A prison officer who delivered rehabilitation courses to sex offenders has been placed on the register himself after being found with child abuse material and extreme pornography including a woman having sex with a donkey. The 46-year-old former HMP Edinburgh officer appeared for sentence at Falkirk sheriff court on Tuesday after pleading guilty at an earlier hearing to communicating indecently

A registered sex offender has been jailed for two years after he was caught alone with a six-year-old girl by a live facial recognition camera. When he was stopped by officers, he was in the company of a girl he had picked up from school as a favour to her mother, who was not aware of his previous convictions. His

Migrants convicted of sexual offences will be barred from claiming asylum under new rules announced by the government, although they could still use human rights law to block their removal. Refugees already granted asylum will be stripped of their right to remain in the UK if they are convicted of sex offences. They will also be made eligible for deportation

Two American persons forced to register as sex offenders, one for an offense that took place more than two decades ago and one for an offense that took place 36 years ago, were denied entry into the Philippines earlier this month. It’s an unfortunate reminder of how persons forced to register continue to deal with lifelong consequences from decades-old convictions