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Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
Seventh Circuit Upholds Indiana Sex Offender's Banishment From City Parks by In a decision that further restricts the already limited movement of sex offenders, the en banc U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that banning a convicted child molester from all public parks in the City of Lafayette, …
Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
Florida Bans Sex Offenders from Hurricane Shelters by Florida Bans Sex Offenders from Hurricane Shelters A new Florida policy bans sex offenders who are not allowed contact with children from public hurricane shelters. Instead, they will be shuttled to their own shelters-prisons across Florida. The rule applies to offenders not …
Arbitrary Draconian Restrictions on Texas Parolees by by Matthew T. Clarke Texas parolees have been subjected to a number of draconian measures not necessarily related to their conviction. For instance, parolees who were not convicted of sex offenses have been made to register as sex offenders and take sex offender …
Article • July 15, 2005 • from PLN July, 2005
Sex Offenders Living In Nursing Homes by by Matthew T. Clarke A recent study revealed that hundreds of sex offenders live in state-regulated nursing homes nationwide. An Oklahoma-based advocacy group, A Perfect Cause, performed a computer search of the nation's sex-offender registries and cross-matched it with the addresses of the …
Article • July 15, 2005 • from PLN July, 2005
California Parole Condition Prohibiting Computer Access For Molester Ruled Unreasonable by The California Court of Appeals granted habeas corpus relief sought by a paroled child molester who complained that the condition of parole forbidding him from either using a computer or getting on the Internet was unreasonable. Ramon Stevens was …
Article • February 15, 2005 • from PLN February, 2005
California Prosecutor Fights Deportation Of Paroled Sex Offenders by California Prosecutor Fights Deportation Of Paroled Sex Offenders Today, nobody wants to keep paroled sex offenders around. Except the Los Angeles County district attorney, that is. In an odd "man bites dog" scenario, the district attorney is trying to retain four …
Article • February 15, 2005 • from PLN February, 2005
California Sexual Predator Unconditionally Released by California's first "graduate" of the state's sexually violent predator (SVP) program, who was released in August, 2003 to highly supervised conditions while living in a trailer on the grounds of Soledad State Prison, was granted unconditional release by a state judge in San Jose, …
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
Non-Contact Visits for Pennsylvania Sex Offenders Upheld by The Pennsylvania Court of Appeals held that a convicted sex offender confined at the State Correctional Institution at Waymart (SCI-Waymart) did not have a right to contact visits with minor children. Jeffrey Garber, a prisoner of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PDOC) …
California Initiative To Soften "3-Strikes" Law Defeated; DNA Collection From Arrestees Approved by California Initiative To Soften "3-Strikes" Law Defeated; DNA Collection From Arrestees Approved Proposition 66 (Prop. 66), a voter Initiative Act placed on the ballot by prisoners' families to soften California's unforgiving "3-Strikes" law by qualifying an offense …
Iowa Sex Offender Residence Restrictions Unconstitutional by by Matthew T. Clarke A federal court in Iowa has held that the residential restrictions placed upon sex offenders by Iowa Code § 692A.2A are unconstitutional. John Does I-III, Iowa sex offenders, filed a class-action suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in Iowa …
A Death in Custody: Massachusetts DOC Wracked by Scandal by Peter Costanza On August 23, 2003, the 26 men in Unit J-1 at SBCC, a "supermax" prison in Shirley, Massachusetts, were finishing lunch. It was just before noon. There was one guard in the unit, a prison guard named David …
Idaho Incompetence Delays Prisoners' Release, Taxpayers Foot The Bill by Michael Rigby Idaho prisoners check in but they don't check outand it's costing taxpayers thousands. That's the criticism being hurled at the Idaho parole commission and the state Department of Corrections (DOC) for unnecessarily holding prisoners past their approved parole …
Oklahoma Man Misidentified as Pedophile Awarded $3.7 Million by Michael Rigby Oklahoma Man Misidentified As Pedophile Awarded $3.7 Million by Michael Rigby A jury has awarded $3.7 million in damages to an Oklahoma man who was falsely labeled a sexual predator after NewsOK.com, a Web site operated jointly by The …
BJS Finds Low Recidivism among Released Sex Offenders by Contradicting popular perceptions, a November 2003 report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), a division of the U.S. Department of Justice, found that violent sex offenders released from prison are less likely than non-sex offenders to be rearrested on any …
Article • July 15, 2004 • from PLN July, 2004
California Sex Offender Prison Classification Label Approved for Dismissed Charge by John E Dannenberg California Sex Offender Prison Classification Label Approved for Dismissed Charge by John E. Dannenberg The California Court of Appeals upheld the California Department of Corrections (CDC) regulation permitting administrative labeling of state prisoners as sex offenders …
Ex Con "Helps Police" by Trying to Murder Sex Offenders by Gary Hunter Between April 12 and April 25, 2003, Lawrence Trant, Jr., 56, tried to kill 8 registered sex offenders in Concord, New Hampshire. Trant set fire to a boarding house, to an apartment building and ultimately stabbed one …
Article • June 15, 2004 • from PLN June, 2004
Administrative Hearings and Judicial Reviews Mandated for Sex Offender Classifications Without Current Felony Conviction. by Bob Williams Mandating administrative hearings and allowing for judicial review, the Colorado Court of Appeals has reversed a state district court's dismissal of a prisoner's challenge to his Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) sex offender …
No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witnesses, and Other Tyrannies of Our Times by Robert Woodman by Dorothy Rabinowitz. 2003. Free Press, ISBN: 0-7432-2834-0 Review by Robert Woodman "There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice." These words, …
California Has Difficulty Placing First Released Sexually Violent Predator by The California Department of Correc-tions (CDC) released its first civilly committed sexually violent predator (SVP) in August, 2003, after he had "graduated" from seven years of rehabilitation at Atascadero State Hospital (ASH), CDC's lockup unit for SVPs. A large public …
Washington Sex Offenders' Release Plans Must Be Processed by The Washington State Court of Appeals for Division 1 has held that the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) must process sex offenders' release plans, even if they are being referred for civil commitment as sexually violent predators. William Dutcher was a …
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