Gail’s Gateway Change for Registrants & Families ELIMINATING DISPARAGING LABELS Disparage (dih-spar-ij) Verb (used with object), dis-par-aged, dis-par-ag-ing To speak of or treat slightingly; depreciate; belittle; To bring reproach or discredit upon; lower the estimation of; For many years,…
Daniel’s Law – Hypocritical or Hopeful?
When I turned on the news this morning I saw that Daniel’s Law had been signed and my initial reaction was not of happiness but rather anger over what I consider to be a very hypocritical, selfish law. Daniel’s Law was signed on 11/20/2020
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It is time we rethink our approach!
The Bureau of Prisons is attempting to follow the Attorney General’s directive to reduce the prison population in response to COVID-19. Officials are scouring records in an attempt to find those who are worthy of home confinement. They are using…
Collateral Damage – PTSD isn’t just for Soldiers and survivors of crime anymore.
As most of you know, anyone that comes out of an incarceration situation is going to have varying levels of PTSD. What I have found rarely mentioned is that the loved ones, wives, children, parents and friends can also be…
IN ARLINGTON, A JURY MUST DECIDE IF A NONVIOLENT SEX OFFENDER SHOULD STAY INCARCERATED AFTER SERVING HIS SENTENCE
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.…