By Philip Fornaci and Roger Lancaster August 23 at 11:32 AM Philip Fornaci is a civil rights lawyer based in Washington. Roger Lancaster is the author of “Sex Panic and the Punitive State.“ On Monday, the Circuit Court in liberal…
Post Incarceration Syndrome: A Dirty Little Secret
Post Incarceration Syndrome: A Dirty Little Secret by: C.Z. Knight-McManus July 31, 2019 www.czmcmanus-writer.com According to the U.S. Department of Justice, over 10,000 convicts are released from U.S. prisons every week. Simple mathematics translates this number to 1,428 prison inmates…
The First Step Act Reviewed
The text of the Act: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/756/text I have never looked deeply into the laws and regulations that are at the Federal level. This could be because it has never affected me, but mostly because I am not entirely sure they…
There is no Justice in our Legal system.
As an average citizen, how often do you think about the law and how it applies to you? Do you go through your everyday life and contemplate whether or not you’re breaking the law, be it federal, state or local? …
The Shaming of America
Public stocks, public dunkings. These were the fates of those shamefully accused of witchcraft in the 1600’s. Scarlet Letter A’s for adulterers in the 17th century. A way of publicly humiliating and shaming those who went outside of their church…
TN Sex Offense Could Get Judicial Diversion
September 5, 2018, a Knox County Court has given a former youth minister who pled guilty to soliciting an underage girl for sex, the chance for judicial diversion. Jaon Evan Kennedy, a 48 year old father of three was caught…
“M” 87 years later
1931 That’s the year Fritz Lang’s movie “M” was produced. It’s an oldy for sure, starring soft spoken, bulgy eyed Peter Lorre and Ellen Widman. “M” is the story of Berlin’s police and underworld trying to trackdown a “loathsome child…
Doctor Who Raped Sedated Patient Receives No Prison Time
Several news articles this week have reported on Dr. Shafeeq Sheikh, a former Houston doctor who surprisingly received no prison time after sexually assaulting a hospitalized patient. Instead, the former doc had his medical license and a $10,000 fine suspended.…
Sex Offender Group Therapy: The Never-Ending Story
When does your court required “sex offender group therapy” end? Who knows? There seems to be no clear cut answer to what I think is a pretty straight forward question. When you begin group sessions and ask how long treatment…
Failure Is Not An Option
What if you knew that no matter what you did, you couldn’t fail? What if “failure” just wasn’t an option? Would you live your life differently? Registrants are bound by many restrictions, jobs, housing even leisure activities are viewed under…
Sex Offenders Take Over Island of Oahu !
Now that I’ve got your attention- The current population of Hawaii’s 3rd largest island, Oahu, is approximately 992,605 as of a 2016 census. The population of registered sex offenders in the United States (and I use the term “United” loosely)…
HUD Bans Housing for Lifetime Registrants
In June 2001 the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, now headed up by Secretary Ben Carson, banned lifetime registered sex offenders from subsidized public housing. (Only those tenants who were in subsidized housing before the law went into…