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During his five years of probation, he can’t have a smart phone or any other device that connects to the Internet, and he can’t live anywhere with Internet access. Les and Amanda Anderson show a photo of themselves with their son Zach following an interview May 27, 2015. Zach was given what the parents see as too harsh a sentence

The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School released a report on incarceration in the US and the statistics are shocking. While the crime rate has been steadily declining since 1990, the U.S. has added about 1.1 million additional people behind bars, almost doubling the nation’s incarcerated population. The below chart shows how the percentage of our population that

The following was submitted to us by Sharon Denniston, who is conducting a survey on Juvenile Registration.     I’m collecting data for my dissertation, and thought you might be able to help me find participants for my study. My dissertation research examines mental health impacts of registering individuals as sex offenders for 1 or more offenses that occurred at less than 18

The public expects and deserves evidence-based practices when it comes to public safety. This is true for any aspect of public policy but perhaps none so much as sex offender policy. With sex offenders, there is a sense of moral outrage at the depravity of their crimes, and rightly so. Virtually any sex crime makes the news headlines because the

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The city has paid $20,000 to the family of a man who was incorrectly labeled a sex offender by the tax collector’s office. For six months Andrew Flaherty had no idea his ID card showed he was sex offender. “He had tried to get on the naval base with his brother and they almost arrested him, were