PHOENIX — There is some good news for North Phoenix residents opposed to the location of a re-entry center for former inmates. The Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) announced Thursday it would no longer transfer sex offenders to the Maricopa…
Jacob Wetterling, Found at Last: R.I.P.
The remains of Jacob Wetterling have been found in Minnesota. Jacob was abducted in 1989 at age 11 in a case that scared, scarred and deeply saddened people around the globe. As his mother Patty texted to the Minneapolis Star…
Court rejects Cochise County man’s challenge of sex-offender registry
By Jessica Suerth | Cronkite News Friday, Sept. 2, 2016 WASHINGTON – A federal court Friday upheld a Cochise County man’s conviction for failing to register as a sex offender, even though the state’s the sex-offender registry law was passed…
Post – Release Regulations and Sex Offender Recidivism
The primary aim of sex offender post-release regulations (e.g., community notification and residency restrictions) is the incapacitation of potential recidivists following their release from prison. Over the last thirty years, this relatively young area of law has been in near…
U.S. District Court Says Do Not Penalize Offenders as Moral Lepers
Significant changes to Michigan’s sex offender registry law cannot be applied retroactively to potentially thousands of sex offenders because the revisions unconstitutionally stiffen the punishment of offenders after their convictions, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The 6th U.S. Circuit…
Avoid Generalizing Across All Sex Offenders
From United States vs. Wolf Child http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2012/10/23/11-30241.pdf Sam E. Haddon, District Judge, Presiding First, the district court relied on the fact that Wolf Child is now a convicted sex offender. This runs contrary to our holding that “a generalized assessment…