REASON: Civil Commitment of Sex Offenders Pretends Prisoners Are Patients

So far the civil commitment program has incarcerated Whipple three times longer than the prison sentence he served. The hunger strike, which involved a dozen of the program’s 737 “clients,” ended last week after state officials promised meetings where protesters could air their complaint that there is no “clear pathway” to release from their indefinite confinement. But those meetings surely

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TN: Win In Tenn – Two registrants successful in Ex Post Facto case

Two plaintiffs were successful in challenging the Tennessee Sex Offender Registry on Ex Post Facto grounds. Below is a link to the 87 page opinion, a more comprehensive breakdown will follow. I anticipate many people’s initial reaction will be “but it only helped these two people”, which is true, but keep in mind it opens up the path for those

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It’s Confirmed: recent “compliance checks” were an “operation”

We have received a spike in comments and contacts from people who have had address verifications, many of which involving multiple jurisdictions over the last two weeks. We suspected it was part of one of these “operations” taking place in certain counties, such as Brevard, Bay and others. You know the ones… Its where they round up a bunch of

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