[8/23/22] NEW FREEDOM, Pa. – Today, Chester County Court Judge Allison Bell Royer ruled that Pennsylvania’s Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act is unconstitutional in Commonwealth v. George Torsilieri. “PARSOL and our affiliates across the country have long advocated against sex offender…
Category: Legislating Morality
Missouri: Monitoring Data Trends After 2018 Justice Reinvestment Initiative Reforms
In 2017, Missouri sought technical assistance under the Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI) program to address various challenges in the state’s criminal justice system. The policies adopted by the state were reflected in House Bill 1355, which was signed into law…
25 Years After Court Ruling, Released Sex Offenders Endure ‘Shadow Prisons’
By Derek W. Logue | June 22, 2022 On June 23 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Kansas v. Hendricks, upheld the practice of detaining people convicted of sexual offenses beyond prison sentences under the guise of treatment. The landmark 5-4 ruling also…
HB1705 Establishes… a violent offender registry, which will include any person on probation or parole for first or second degree murder
HB 1705 specifies that the State Highway Patrol must maintain on its website a registry for violent offenders who are on probation or parole for the offense of first or second degree murder in Missouri or for an equivalent offense in…
Their Time Served, Sex Offenders Are Kept in Prison in ‘Cruel Catch-22’
Justice Sotomayor said she held out hope that “New York will choose to re-evaluate its policy in a manner that gives due regard to the constitutional liberty interests of people like Ortiz.”
Mindlessly Punitive Federal Sentencing Guidelines
When Joseph Jenkins went on vacation in May 2009, he brought his collection of child pornography with him. That decision led to a prison sentence so severe that a federal appeals court yesterday deemed it “substantively unreasonable” in a decision…
NOT FOR RENT! Documentary Film
The feature length documentary film, NOT FOR RENT!, looks at rental housing barriers ex-felons face as they attempt to rebuild their lives in our communities. With over 95% of the American prison population being released at some point in the…
WAR Letter going out to local citizens, please share
Families of Registrants & Registrants Alike – Wives, Mothers, Girlfriends, Daughters, Grandmothers, etc. The Sex Offender Registry is out of control: growing at a rapid pace. This is important ….and it involves you. We need every person and every family to…
Constitutional Law and the Role of Scientific Evidence
Just published: A new article by legal scholar Melissa Hamilton spotlights the key role of *scientific evidence* in a ground-breaking 2016 federal appeals court decision known as Doe v. Snyder—and how that holding is already impacting other challenges to draconian…
Offenders on Federal Supervised Release Hits All-Time High
Number of Offenders on Federal Supervised Release Hits All-Time High Average inmate faces nearly four years of community monitoring after incarceration With nearly 190,000 inmates, the federal prison system is the largest in the nation, far exceeding those of California,…