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Federal Judge Suspends Some Georgia Sex Offender Residency Restrictions by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke On June 29, 2006, e federal judge in Georgia granted class-action status and a temporary restraining order (TRO) suspending enforcement of some provisions of Georgias sex offender residency law (SORL), Ga.Code.Ann. § 42-15. The …
Floridas Civil Commitment Center Under Funded and Out-of-Control by David Reutter Floridas Civil Commitment Center Under Funded and Out-of-Control by David M. Reutter When first created in 1999, Florida's Civil Commitment Center (FCCC) was hyped as a place to house sexually violent predators for protection of the public while providing …
Florida County Sued Over Refusing Sex Offender Home Weather Stripping by A Florida sex offender has sued Brevard Bounty for refusing to weatherize his home. The suit alleges the County has enacted a prerequisite that excludes persons with criminal convictions from receiving federal funds to perform energy savings and installation …
Unique Texas Sexual Predator Civil Commitment Has Successes/Failures by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke Texas has a unique form of civil commitment for sexual predators which allows outpatient treatment and requires most of the civilly committed to live at a halfway house. A committed man's recent escape from a …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
WA Courts Cannot Extend Supervision Period for Sex Offenses Committed Before 1996 by In 1994, Jamie Wallin pled guilty to sex offenses in Washington state, committed between July 2, 1988 and January 8, 1990. He remained free on supervision until March of 1996, when he violated his probation and received …
Focus on Sex Offenders Increases While Number of Sex Offenses Decline by In September, 2006 the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics released its annual Crime Victimization report for 2005, which indicated a dramatic drop in the number of rapes and sexual assaults nationally. The 191,670 reported incidents represent an almost …
Non-Sex-Offender Parolee Entitled to Due Process Before Being Treated As Sex Offender by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke The Fifth Circuit court of appeals held that a parolee who has never been convicted of a sex offense is entitled to a due process hearing prior to being required to …
Florida's Juvenile Justice: Convicted Sex Offender Rapes Disabled Youth in His Care by Once again, Florida's Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) is under close scrutiny for failing to protect a severely mentally disabled teenager from sexual abuse. At the center of this scandal is Robert, an orphan with the mind …
State Auditor Blasts Colorado DOC's Private Prison Oversight Failures by Matthew T. Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke In June 2005, the Colorado State Auditor released its April 2005 report of the performance audit of private prisons contracted by the Colorado Department of Corrections. The report strongly criticized the private prisons …
Exhaustion Not Required in Pennsylvania Parole Denial Challenges by The Third Circuit Court Of Appeals held that a Pennsylvania state prisoner challenging the denial of parole need not file a petition for a writ of mandamus in order to satisfy the dictates of exhaustion before seeking federal habeas review. Pennsylvania …
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
Federal Government Bans Medicaid Impotence Drugs for Sex Offenders by The U.S. Government has ordered states to ensure convicted sex offenders do not receive reimbursement for erectile dysfunction drugs under Medicaid or Medicare. A New York audit showed 198 sex offenders received such drugs through the state/federal health-care program for …
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
New York Governor Illegally Halts the Release of 12 Sex Offenders by by Gary Hunter New York Governor George Pataki illegally ordered twelve sex offenders, scheduled for release from prison, to be committed to New York's Manhattan Psychiatric Center (MPC), between September 23 and October 21, 2005. On November 2, …
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
Civil Commitment of Massachusetts Sex Offenders Expanding by by Michael Rigby Massachusetts prosecutors are using recent changes in state law to expand the number of sex offenders imprisoned through civil commitment, and it's costing taxpayers millions. In 2004 and 2005, the Massachusetts legislature and Governor Mitt Romney greatly expanded the …
Los Angeles County Pays Prisoner $42,500 for Legal Malpractice by Public Defender by by John E. Dannenberg The County of Los Angeles paid $42,500 to settle a legal malpractice claim brought by a prisoner who suffered state prison plus felony disenfranchisement upon an unlawful conviction. In October 1992, Jose Castro, …
Registered Sex Offenders Murdered By Vigilante in Washington by by Matthew T. Clarke On August 27, 2005, two registered sex offenders were murdered in Bellingham, Washington, by a vigilante posing as an FBI agent. The killer got the victims' names, address and photographs from the Whatcom County Sheriff's Sex Offender …
New York's Sex Offender Treatment Program Enjoined; Stay Issued Pending Appeal by by Bob Williams The United States District Court for the Northern District of New York ruled that New York's program for treating convicted state sex offenders violates the Fifth Amendment's guarantee against compulsory self-incrimination and issued a preliminary …
Florida Awards Contracts Putting Sex Offenders on GPS Supervision; Other States to Follow by The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) has awarded three contracts for Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite monitoring of sex offenders. The contracts come on the heels on legislation that allocated $3.9 million over a three-year period …
Florida Violates Sex Offenders for Possessing Common Men's Magazines by Florida Violates Sex Offenders for Possessing Common Men's Magazines The State of Florida, in a crackdown on sex offenders, is sending probationers to jail for probation violations because they possessed racy magazines or sex manuals. The crackdown comes from increased …
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
Massachusetts DOC Denies Two, Approves One, Same-Sex Marriages by Massachusetts DOC Denies Two, Approves One, Same-Sex Marriages by Matthew T. Clarke The Massachusetts Department of Corrections (DOC) has denied the request of two civilly-committed sex offenders to marry. It also denied a similar request by two other male prisoners, but …
Article • October 15, 2005
Prior Sex Offense Plea Qualifies For California Sexually Violent Predator Civil Commitment by The San Joaquin County California District Attorney requested review by the State Supreme Court of an appellate decision that State prisoner Norman Yartz's first sex offense conviction in 1978 could not be used to support his civil …
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