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…
Tag: prison
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.…
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…
The Dating Debacle for Registrants
Who do you tell, what do you say and when do you say it? That’s just one of the many dilemmas facing single registrants trying to reintegrate back into the dating world. Getting out there an socializing is risky business…
West Virginia’s Fake News Regarding Sex Offenders
I thought it started out as a good news article from The Exponent Telegram in West Virginia. A judge was reading sex offender rules to a defendant at a sentencing hearing. The author of the article correctly noted that defendants…
Neighborhood Hysteria: This Time It’s Not Over A Sex Offender!
77 year old Carl Reimann gets out of prison. He has served his sentence for the 1972 Yorkville murders of 5 people at a restaurant, including one who was 16. Mr. Reimann moves into a quaint little neighborhood in La…
Do Conditions of Parole Violate the First Amendment?
For those registrants under parole, commonly referred to as “supervision”, it comes as quite a shock when you are first informed that you can’t have a smartphone or access to the internet, all violations of parole for most registrants. Access…
Sex Offense + Civil Commitment = A Second Prison Sentence
Time served should be just that, a sentence of time decided by the court that has a beginning and an end. Apparently this is not so for sex offenders. Some sex offenders seem to be getting caught up in the…
One More Suicide Is One Too Many
Fear of life on the registry may be responsible for another life cut short. On Tuesday, 1/30/2018 the news reported that former “Glee” TV show” actor, Mark Salling died of an apparent suicide. Mark had been found guilty of possession…
Registrants and PTSD Screening
Periodically registrants in Sex Offender Group Therapy (you know, that “one-size-fits-all” group therapy that most registrants on supervision are mandated to attend after release from prison) are asked to fill out a screening questionnaire. The questionnaire asks about their basic…
Sex Offense: An Unpayable Debt?
“No matter how much time you’ve spent in prison, you haven’t exactly paid your debt to society.” This was recently told to a group of registrants by a counselor in a sex offender therapy group. So, are sex offenses an…
Bonds, Parolee’s and Sex Offenders
You’ve journeyed through Hell. You’ve traveled the long road of court dates and jail/prison sentences. Done your time. And now, finally, you’re out. Free, Semi-Free, On Supervision,whatever you want to call it. Time to get on with your life, right?…
Things That Go “Bump” In The Night
Does the idea of an audit scare you? How about an audit where states lose track of registrants? Out of the Boston Globe, Sept 27 is a great article by Jeremy C. Fox regarding Massachusetts having lost track of nearly…
Who Wrote the Book on Homelessness?
WLRN/ Miami/South Florida ran an excellant article entitled “Sex Offenders Sent to Homeless Encampment told to Find Housing, But Where?” The encampment at Northwest 36th Court and 71st Street is at the edge of Hialeah and Miami. It’s the warehouse…
Why Oh Why Wyoming?
Well, if you were planning a move or a summer vacation to Wyoming, you might want to think twice. Registrants in Wyoming as well as those traveling through the state will now have to empty their wallets to fatten the…
Registrant Passport Ban In Australia, Here We Go, Or Don’t Go, Again!
About a month ago I wrote about Australia’s bid to pass legislation to prevent those on their national registry from traveling. Their plan was to deny passports to at least 20,000 registrants, prevent them from traveling overseas to Southeast Asian…
French President’s Wife Would Be On The Registry In The USA
Newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron was just 15 yrs old when he began to fall in love with his 39 yr. old married drama teacher, Brigitte Trogneux. Macron was attending “La Providence”, a Jesuit school in Amiens in Northern…
BOP Bungles Sex Offender’s Transitional Housing
Asking to speak with the prison warden was much like Dorothy asking to speak to the Wizard of Oz. No one gets in to see him!. No way no how!. You need an appt.,come back in a year!. Better yet,…
It’s The Clothes That Make The Man
He is being released from prison after 5 and 1/2 long years. Years that seemed like an eternity to his family. We receive the “prison clothing form” in the mail 4 weeks before his get out date. For those of…
Operation Pacifier: Unscrupulous Win for FBI in TN
The FBI’s Operation Pacifier sting is in the news again. For those not familiar with this particular brand of FBI trickery, more details can be found in earlier posts. The jist of the sting was the FBI used a hacking…