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Using hormonal drugs to reduce sexual violence recidivism is known as chemical castration. In 1996, California became the first state in the United States to authorize the use of either chemical or surgical castration for certain sex offenders who were being released from prison into the community. This legislation was extremely controversial at the time; however, eight additional states have

[FAC NOTE: The next time you think everyone convicted of a sex crime is actually guilty…] Author Alice Sebold publicly apologized Tuesday to the man who was exonerated last week in the 1981 rape that was the basis for her memoir “Lucky” and said she was struggling with the role she played “within a system that sent an innocent man

A person required to register as a sex offender from Iowa was arrested after failing to register his phone number with local authorities. He was booked Monday without bond at the Sumter County Detention Center after he failed to report his cell phone number. His original offense was from 2004. SOURCE

Derek Logue recently pointed out that Colorado’s SOMB’s changing of the term “sex offender” to “adults who commit sexual offenses” only makes it sound as though that is what people with a past sex offense do:  continue to commit sex offenses.   Research shows this is false.  That is why it is so surprising to me that the Colorado Springs Gazette

The Alligator at the University of Florida recently printed an article on a new program in Alachua County called Just Income GNV.  “This privately funded program, designed by formerly incarcerated individuals, assists formerly incarcerated people re-enter society with a guaranteed income.” Just Income GNV is still in the application process, which ends Dec. 1.  A group of 115 people will