But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. -Declaration of Independence of the United States of America
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Registering with Dignity — Sex Law and Policy Center
Registering with Dignity — Sex Law and Policy Center
REGISTERING WITH DIGNITY: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR REENTRY AND LIFE ON THE REGISTRY
Over the past year, we’ve diligently worked to draft a reentry guidebook specifically for people on the registry and the people that love and support them as they navigate the ins and outs of registration and reentry. There is a discussion about the varying pieces of federal legislation requiring registration for sex offenses. One section details constitutional protections, while another section outlines what to expect from registration. Community supervision and how to successfully complete it is covered later on, as is the reentry process and sex offender treatment. This guide explains a registrant’s rights to sexual expression and what to do if they feel their rights are being violated. There is an additional section specifically for women and juveniles on the registry. This guide also helps your loved ones understand what to expect from loving and supporting someone on the registry. In short, it helps registrants, and those they love, understand their rights as someone on the registry. If you have recommendations for improving Registering with Dignity, let us know by filling out the survey below.
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It's Time to Reduce, Reconstruct, Reclassify, Rethink and Reform the Virginia Sex Offender Registry: November 2017 U.S. Sex Offender Map from National ...
It's Time to Reduce, Reconstruct, Reclassify, Rethink and Reform the Virginia Sex Offender Registry: November 2017 U.S. Sex Offender Map from National ...: November 28, 2017 http://www.missingkids.com/content/dam/ncmec/en_us/documents/Sex_Offenders_Map.pdf Note- I can email my full...
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The High Cost of Overcrowded Prisons - Shepherd Express
The High Cost of Overcrowded Prisons - Shepherd Express
Here is a link to a companion document: http://legis.wisconsin.gov/assembly/18/goyke/media/1206/corrections-publication-final.pdf
Here is a link to a companion document: http://legis.wisconsin.gov/assembly/18/goyke/media/1206/corrections-publication-final.pdf
Monday, November 27, 2017
Riley v. New Jersey State Parole Board, NJ: Supreme Court 2014 - Google Scholar
Riley v. New Jersey State Parole Board, NJ: Supreme Court 2014 - Google Scholar
"A well-established principle of ancient origin is that the legislature cannot increase the punishment for a crime after it has been committed. This simple principle — that after-the-fact laws cannot raise the punishment for earlier committed conduct — is embodied in the Ex Post Facto Clauses of both the Federal and New Jersey Constitutions, U.S. Const. art. I, § 10; N.J. Const. art. IV, § 7, ¶ 3."
"A well-established principle of ancient origin is that the legislature cannot increase the punishment for a crime after it has been committed. This simple principle — that after-the-fact laws cannot raise the punishment for earlier committed conduct — is embodied in the Ex Post Facto Clauses of both the Federal and New Jersey Constitutions, U.S. Const. art. I, § 10; N.J. Const. art. IV, § 7, ¶ 3."
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The holiday that scares adults
The holiday that scares adults: 'Trick or treat! Trick or treat! Give us something lethal to eat!' That's not the actual rhyme, but from all the warnings about Halloween, you just might think it was. Even the American Academy of ...
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It's Time to Reduce, Reconstruct, Reclassify, Rethink and Reform the Virginia Sex Offender Registry: The Myth and the Propaganda of Halloween and Regis...
It's Time to Reduce, Reconstruct, Reclassify, Rethink and Reform the Virginia Sex Offender Registry: The Myth and the Propaganda of Halloween and Regis...: Halloween is 3.5 weeks away which means news outlets everywhere will begin to run stories and write articles on Halloween Safety and Reg...
State legislation would exempt teens from a felony for having consensual sex
State legislation would exempt teens from a felony for having consensual sex: Sex between most Wisconsin high school students would be reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor, under the so-called 'Romeo and Juliet bill' heard Thursday by the Assembly Committee on Criminal Jus...
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It's Time to Reduce, Reconstruct, Reclassify, Rethink and Reform the Virginia Sex Offender Registry: Everyone Keeps Asking Me, Why Don’t You Take a Vac...
It's Time to Reduce, Reconstruct, Reclassify, Rethink and Reform the Virginia Sex Offender Registry: Everyone Keeps Asking Me, Why Don’t You Take a Vac...: It’s July, smack-dab in the middle of vacation time. Everywhere I go, everyone asks me what we are doing this week, ...
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Why We're Suing the FBI for Records About Best Buy Geek Squad Informants | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Why We're Suing the FBI for Records About Best Buy Geek Squad Informants | Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org/files/2017/05/31/2017-05-31_eff_v._doj_complaint_0.pdf
https://www.eff.org/files/2017/05/31/2017-05-31_eff_v._doj_complaint_0.pdf
Thursday, June 8, 2017
Violent sex offenders live near Portage Co. community center, spotlighting placement challenges
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Wednesday, June 7, 2017
It's Time to Reduce, Reconstruct, Reclassify, Rethink and Reform the Virginia Sex Offender Registry: May 2017, 50 States Per Capita for Registered Sex ...
It's Time to Reduce, Reconstruct, Reclassify, Rethink and Reform the Virginia Sex Offender Registry: May 2017, 50 States Per Capita for Registered Sex ...: As I posted yesterday the NCMEC May 2017 Map is online. I have now updated my Per Capita Chart that I originally created during ...
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
If Changes Were to Be Made to Our Legal System...
I was brought up to believe that if I was going to complain about something I should have an idea of how I would fix it if I had the power to change the status quo. So when confronted by the our current legal system, how it works and how it doesn't work, I started making a list of the things I believe might be better than what we currently have.
- No plea bargains - the state needs to prove its case rather than being a bully using multiple charges to coerce a plea. This would reduce the number of felony enhancement charges filed against innocent people only serving to create notches in a prosecutor's belt when the accused takes a plea. Ensuring prosecutors would be more choosy about who and how they charge people for crimes. They would need to carry the true weight of burden of proof, rather than this status quo of bullying people into plea bargains to save them time and make money for the prison business machine. Even when the prisons are owned and managed by the government they are still in the business of cutting costs. As usual the first to suffer these cuts are not the workers in the prison but the prisoners.
- Sentence restructuring, eliminate the death penalty. Our courts are not infallible, they are not error free, thus do not really meet the criteria of complete certainty of conviction. Without complete certainty, it is not worth taking one innocent person's life due to a mistake. A mistake that cannot be taken back or compensated for.
- Twenty year cap or even twenty-five year cap on all sentences regardless of crime. No more life sentences. Far too expensive and it happens to promote a "nothing to lose" mentality in prison which will cause an increase of inmate violence. With a sentencing cap focus can then be turned to rehabilitation and slow reintegration while incarcerated. When I picture this I see something similar to Sweden's system of incarceration and reintegration. The place to start right now though, begin treatment for the offender the day they step foot in prison. Leave no time for them to become a better criminal or learn anything new from fellow inmates.
- Since there will be no plea bargains, always a trial, the jury will be of the peers of that person, based off of their race, color, creed, religion, etc. It says PEERS, not just 'people'. So there will be no all white juries convicting some poor African American boy and no all African American juries convicting some poor white boy.
- Offenders, once released from prison, will return to the community to which they committed their crime, unless their support system is located elsewhere completely. Offenders are less likely to re-offend if they have a good support system nearby that they can lean on when necessary. It is when they do not have a support system that things can begin to go downhill for the offender, many times landing then back in jail or prison.
- There should be no residency restrictions for any crime. Unless it can be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that the location of the offender directly contributed to the crime they committed, where a person sleeps at night is of very little consequence.
- If there must be a public registry, make it for ALL felonies not just one. There are some pretty dangerous offenders out there that have committed heinous crimes that are not listed on any public registry. We don't know where they live, we don't know where they work, and we don't know the kind of car they drive, this should be a crime right? When it comes to registries, it is far more about publicity than it is about safety, especially the safety of children. You want to keep your child safe? Educate them, teach them about the cruel world we live in, that competition is a real thing and that there are no points for second place, just the drive to want to do better next time. Registries are as stupid as participation trophies, they are both meaningless and hide the truth. The truth about registries is that they are so diluted with little to no risk offenders that the nefarious ones will slip through the cracks and have. The same truth can be said about those participation trophies, they show only that you showed up, not that that you did anything once you got there. Personally I believe that there is more to life than just 'showing up'.
The list while short and incomplete, would be a good start to making our country less the incarceration nation that we are today. Yeah I'm sure we'll beat the planet in number of incarcerated citizens per capita, but if we can begin reducing that number with new initiatives and implementing solutions rather than creating more problems we'd be a pretty good place to live and visit again.
It's Time to Reduce, Reconstruct, Reclassify, Rethink and Reform the Virginia Sex Offender Registry: May 2017 U.S. Sex Offender Map from National Cente...
It's Time to Reduce, Reconstruct, Reclassify, Rethink and Reform the Virginia Sex Offender Registry: May 2017 U.S. Sex Offender Map from National Cente...: Note- I can email my full spreadsheet (May 2005 to May 2017) to anyone who is interested, it’s just too wide to post on this blog as an...
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