Florida Action Committee (FAC)

Much appreciation to the Brennan Center, Ruth Sangree and Professor Rachel Barkow for including the concept of modifying the “sex offender” label in their piece on ending mass incarceration! Below is the relevant excerpt: “Too often laws group together people of wildly different levels of culpability. A category like “sex offender” includes violent rapists and teens who sext each other.

At least 27 Alabama prisoners died in 2019 as a result of homicide, drug overdoses or suicides, according to information gathered from ADOC, news accounts and tips reporters receive from other inmates and family members of the deceased inmates. The Alabama Department of Corrections commissioner, Jeff Dunn, announced the formation of an internal task force to investigate the recent inmate

Tennessee Republican Bruce Griffey introduced a bill that would require anyone convicted of a sexual offense against a child under the age of 13 to be chemically castrated, Under the language of the bill, which is nearly identical to that of a similar law approved last year in Alabama, those sentenced for the crime would undergo a chemical injection that

From The Appeal: In May 2016, a local Fox station in Wisconsin reported a remarkable story. That March, a man who had served 11 years on second-degree child sexual assault had been released from prison. The city of Waukesha had a rule forbidding those convicted of a sex crime against someone under age 18 from living within 1,500 feet of

One of the comments that irritates me the most is “well you should have thought of that before you…”. It was once said to me by a police officer who had just denied every single one of the proposed residences on the list I provided her because it ran afoul of their city’s residency restriction. It had been my third

Ireland should consider introducing privacy laws to protect the identities of sex offenders being released back into the community, the outgoing director of the Probation Service, Vivian Geiran, believes. He said the service has dealt with several cases where a violent or sexual offender has been released into prearranged accommodation “but they’re identified at the point of their release”. “And