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Court Terminates MA Civil Commitment Center Injunction by The Massachusetts Treatment Center for Sexually Dangerous Persons is not a "prison" and persons civilly committed to it are not "prisoners" for purposes of the PLRA judgment termination provisions Persons committed to it received indeterminate sentences of one day to life to …
California Sex Offenders Uprooted by New Restrictive Residency Law by California?s pernicious ?Jessica?s Law,? overwhelmingly approved by voters on November 7, 2006 as a result of Proposition 83, restricts certain paroled sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school, park or other areas where children are present. As …
Lawsuits test crackdown on sex criminals by john gramlich Friday, April 18, 2008 Stateline Article By John Gramlich, Stateline.org Staff Writer A death-penalty case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court this week marks the latest constitutional challenge to an ongoing, nationwide crackdown on sex criminals. From California to North Carolina, …
Los Angeles County Pays $2.8 Million For Failure To Protect Accused Child Molester In Jail by An accused child molester who was savagely beaten by other prisoners after Los Angeles (LA) Men?s Central Jail officials negligently placed him in communal housing won a $2.8 million settlement from LA County. Jose …
Scandal Rocks Texas Youth Commission; Youths Molested by School Supervisors by Gary Hunter During the 2006 elections, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott ran television ads touting the capture of the state's 500th Internet child predator. Shortly after elected lawmakers convened in 2007 they went to work on a bill that …
Texas Parole Law Remanded for Ex Post Facto Ruling by Gary Hunter By Gary Hunter Texas prisoner Wilson Brown, a convicted sex offender, went to prison in 1989. At the time Brown was convicted, all Texas prisoners required only two favorable votes to make parole. In 1993, the parole board …
Most Serious Sex Offenders in Boston Living in Homeless Shelters by Efforts in Massachusetts to keep a close eye on released sex offenders have apparently failed. Rather than having such offenders in stable living environments where law enforcement officials can monitor them, 65 percent of the state?s most dangerous sex …
Article • December 15, 2007
NY Sex Offender's Risk Level Three Classification Affirmed by John Laraby, a New York state parolee, was denied a risk level reduction by a New York state trial court at a rehearing in accordance with a ruling in another case. Laraby believed that, based on his exemplary parole record, his …
Retroactive Application of NJ Sex Offender Law Upheld by The plaintiffs were convicted before September 1979 of sex offenses and their conduct determined to be characterized by "a pattern of repetitive and compulsive behavior." They were sentenced to indeterminate terms in an Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center and could not …
Article • December 15, 2007
AZ Prisoner's Denial of Transfer to Release Center by Changing His Sex-Offense Treatment Rating Satisfies Due Process by Tony Luca, an Arizona prisoner, was denied transfer to a correctional release center after prison guards changed his sex-offender treatment rating to one not eligible for transfer to a release center. He …
Article • December 15, 2007
New York Prisoner's Prior Convictions for Sex Offenses Are Sufficient for Level 3 Classification by In anticipation of the release from prison of Dale Mabb, a New York sex offender, the state Board of Examiners of Sex Offenders convinced a trial court to assess him to be a risk level …
Article • December 15, 2007
NY Sex-Offender Properly Classified as Risk Level II Where Risk Assessment Points Place Him in That Category by Alan Barnett, a New York state prisoner, was classified as a risk level II sex offender based on risk assessment points accumulated as a result of factors relevant to his crime and …
Article • December 15, 2007
NY Sex Offender's Risk Level 3 Classification Based on Credible Information, Thus Affirmed by Tercero Stafford, a New York prisoner, is serving a prison sentence for burglary. He had prior convictions for sex offenses in New York and Vermont, for which he was released from prison in Vermont in 1996. …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
New York High Court Invokes Due Process Rights for Civil Commitment of Alleged Sexual Predators by The New York Court of Appeals reversed a ruling by the Appellate Division that had permitted sex offenders nearing the end of their criminal sentences to be summarily transferred to mental health facilities (e,g., …
Jail Bait - Phoenix New Times article about prisoner badly beaten in Sheriff Arpaio's jail by Robert Nelson Jail Bait A prisoner was nearly beaten to death behind bars for a crime he didn't commit. Was he set up by Sheriff Joe's henchmen? By Robert Nelson Published: December 26, 2002 …
Unsupported Penile Plethysmograph Testing as Condition of Release Rises to Due Process Violation, Creates Liberty Interest by The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that arbitrarily imposing a penile plethysmograph [electromechanical gauge of male sexual stimulation] testing requirement as a condition of supervised release for a sex offender violates …
Article • September 15, 2007 • from PLN September, 2007
Nevada Psychological Review Panel Hearings Subjected to Open Meeting and Constitutional Due Process Requirements by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T.Clarke In two related cases, the Supreme Court of Nevada held that sex offender certification hearings held by the Nevada Psychological Review Panel (PRP) were subject to the Nevada open meeting …
Article • September 15, 2007 • from PLN September, 2007
O.K. to Ban Suspicious Indiana Sex Offender from Parks by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that a registered sex offender who had been observed behaving suspiciously could be permanently banned from a city?s parks. Robert Brown, a registered sex offender who had a single conviction for child molestation, …
Florida’s Civil Commitment Center Exhibits Little Change Despite New Contractor by David Reutter Florida's Civil Commitment Center Exhibits Little Change Despite New Contractor by David M. Reutter Despite recent scandals and a new private contractor, the Florida Civil Commitment Center (FCCC) is still a facility with little direction other than …
Article • September 15, 2007 • from PLN September, 2007
Florida Homeless Sex Offender Ruling Reversed, FDOC Changes Policy Anyway by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Florida?s Fifth District Court of Appeals has reversed, on procedural grounds, an order by the Volusia County Circuit Court that enjoined the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) from engaging in the ?practice of …
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