By Terry . . . Good Tuesday Morning Everyone! I think today is a great time to share and be creative! What do you think about yourself? Before I got myself into trouble and landed on a sexual offense registry, I was
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By Terry . . . Good Monday morning, everyone, Here we go…the week begins and even with all the snow and ice we may encounter this week, it’s still a great day to share and be creative. Have you ever considered what
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By Terry . . . Good Sunday morning, everyone, Some think it is the end of the week and others think it’s the beginning of the week; whatever you believe is fine because it’s still a great time to share and be
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Terry is the videographer of NARSOL’s Lives on the Registry. Most of the time, he is travelling to places where he will be interviewing people for the videos. Each morning he writes a journal entry about where he is – the weather,
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A longer version of Dr. Fortino’s piece appears in the FEBRUARY issue of Criminal Legal News. By Michael Fortino, Ph.D. . . . Fueled by a “moral panic” that evolved through the mid-2000s, the war on “sex offenders” paralleled the war on
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By Richard and Sandy . . . If the world is made of individuals and families, are not the world’s problems reflected in us and our families? If we look at the world through the lives of ourselves and our families and
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By King Alexander . . . This week the Louisiana Supreme Court handed the forces of onerous registration an unexpected defeat on federal First Amendment grounds. The court in a six-to-one ruling struck down two statutes requiring registrants to carry state identification
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Cheryl, My name is Christopher E. Pelloski, MD. I have written two books that chronicle my experience within and research about the current U.S. criminal justice system and sex offender registry, Trauma, Shame, and the Power of Love, and A Torturous Path.
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By Andy O . . . I read an editorial from the Washington Post Saturday entitled “George Floyd’s death shows exactly what police should not do.” One paragraph really stood out: We’re still learning more about the case, but the episode suggests poor
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By E. King Alexander, Jr. . . . Amidst intense political concern about the fate of Roe v. Wade (1973) particularly, and that of stare decisis (binding precedent doctrine) generally, the Supreme Court’s April 20 decision in Ramos v. Louisiana (6/3, majority opinion by Gorsuch) directly affects
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