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Keeping Sex Offenders Beyond Their Sentence Jan. 21, 2025
Twenty states, the District of Columbia, and the federal government have laws allowing for continued... Read More
Josh Hawley's Attack on Ketanji Brown Jackson Illustrates the Emotionalism She Criticized: The Senator Argues That Questioning Sex Offender Policies 'Endangers Our Children' Mar. 23, 2022
In a 1996 Harvard Law Review article, Ketanji Brown Jackson, then a law school student, noted the "c... Read More
Josh Hawley's Disgusting QAnon Slur Mar. 18, 2022
Of all the Senate Republicans who regularly engage in gutter politics, none is more likely to scrape... Read More
Civil Commitment of Sex Offenders Pretends Prisoners Are Patients: The Practice Evades Constitutional Constraints by Casting Punishment and Preventive Detention As Treatment Feb. 10, 2021
"It was my understanding that I was to do the treatment, then be released," says Mike Whipple, who r... Read More
Our Pointless, Vicious, Very American Culture of Shame Jan. 18, 2019
Puritanism's obsession with guilt and shame, Nathaniel Hawthorne believed, was America's original si... Read More
Scaring the Parents on Halloween Oct. 18, 2018
Every year around Halloween, Patch, a network of news websites specializing in local coverage around... Read More
Why the Executive Branch Shouldn't Legislate: Progressives Appreciate the Separation of Powers -- Up to a Point Oct. 10, 2018
Brett Kavanaugh, who joined the Supreme Court this week, and Neil Gorsuch, who was appointed last ye... Read More
Where There's Smoke Sep. 29, 2016
Dear Annie: My daughter just learned that a registered sex offender is living next door to her and h... Read More
The Perverse Penalties of Leper Lists Aug. 31, 2016
Officially, the restrictions imposed by Michigan's Sex Offender Registration Act aim to keep former ... Read More
Pokemon Predator Panic Aug. 12, 2016
New York has become the first state in the country to ban sex offenders from playing Pokemon Go, thu... Read More
Branding Sex Offenders' Passports: Why? Feb. 18, 2016
Just one day after Pres. Obama signed legislation that will brand the passports of sex offenders, a ... Read More
Treating Teens Like Tots May. 21, 2015
When Walt Disney was 16, he forged his parents' signatures and lied about his age so he could join t... Read More
My Sex Offender Brunch Apr. 02, 2015
Sunday morning at 10 found me slicing the tomatoes and arranging the cheese platter. My husband was ... Read More
What to Really Be Afraid of on Halloween Oct. 30, 2014
Happy Halloween! It's that time of year when your neighbors are secretly unwrapping candy, brushing ... Read More
Indefinite Detention of Sex Offenders Flouts the Rule of Law Feb. 26, 2014
Although Macon Baker completed his prison sentence in 2006, the state of Missouri kept him behind ba... Read More
