According to Merriam and Webster, a tipping point is the critical point in a situation, process, or system beyond which a significant and often unstoppable effect or change takes place. Maybe overload point would be a better descriptor. In Chicago, a sort of
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Newbie Georgia Republican legislator Sam Moore has struck a blow–albeit an unpopular one–for constitutional rights, fact-based legislation, and common sense. His bill would remove restrictions on registered citizens, once their sentences are satisfied, that restrict their movements and prohibit their presence in
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February 19, 2014 By Andrew Extein, MSW Co-authored by Galen Baughman I. Until Dec. 11, 2013, Jesse Ryan Loskarn was a popular chief of staff for a Tennessee senator. But on that winter day, police broke down the door of his rowhouse
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Deep in the swamps of southern Florida, Miracle Village lies miles away from the nearest town, surrounded by sugar cane fields. Nearby, the irrigation canals are swarming with alligators. While the name suggests an idyllic rural getaway, the former plantation near Pahokee
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Compiled by Reform Sex Offender Laws, Inc. http://nationalrsol.org/ Facilitating successful reentry is always a challenging endeavor, but with sex offenders specifically, several unique dynamics and barriers make the transition even more difficult. For example, myths about sex offenders and victims, inflated
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Our sister organization Women Against Registry—W.A.R.—will be in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, January 28, in support of a hearing to determine if artist and political activist Dennis Sobin is within his rights to post a website, www.IdiotsRegistry.info, listing those government officials who
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For Immediate Release December 2, 2013 Cambridge, MA–The city of San Antonio, Texas has, for the past few months and in spite of calls for evidence that it is needed, been moving along legislation to ban registered sex offenders from living close
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By Sandy . . . I thought I was through with Halloween; it seems that Halloween is not through with me. For several weeks now, this has been my message wherever I could possibly find a place to put it: Increased risk
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“It’s barbaric,” said Brenda Jones, executive director of Reform Sex Offender Laws, Inc. “There’s no other word for it.” She was speaking of the legislation proposed in Alabama by state representative Steve Hurst. This is the fourth time that Hurst has proposed
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Every once in a while, someone will get it right. Here are three articles, all just out, that give accurate, fact-based information and opinions regarding sex offender management and treatment. “Sex Offenders Aren’t all Monsters,” written by Dianne Frazee-Walker, appears in a
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