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• IN - How likely are sex offenders to re-offend?

  
  Sex Offender Issues — Authority: 152
  View the article here 11/22/2009 By ALICIA GALLEGOS Studies suggest rates lower than popularly believed. SOUTH BEND   — Sex offenders are often seen as incurable deviants who lurk in the shadows, waiting to prey on unsuspecting innocents. But the term " sex offender ," is actually much more complex, ...
  4 days ago

• Jennifer Skeem on Sentencing and Mental Health

  
  Grits for Breakfast — Authority: 560
  Yesterday morning I heard a provocative and informative talk at the Texas Judicial Advisory Councils biennial sentencing conference from Dr. Jennifer Skeem , who is a member of the MacArthur Research Network on Mandated Community Treatment, and Centers for Psychology and Law and Evidence-Based Corrections, on the ...
  5 days ago

• Fox News Applies Its Patented Crowd-Inflating Technique to Sarah Palin [Propaganda]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 866
  Fox News does not learn: The network is claiming that the crowd at a Sarah Palin event today is "huge," and showing footage from what is almost certainly a McCain-Palin rally as evidence. Last week, the Daily Show caught Sean Hannity passing off old tea-party footage as representative of the (much smaller) ...
  1 week ago

• Higher Education Inside.

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 751
  Wesleyan , a liberal arts college in Middletown, CT, has started a program that allows inmates in a nearby high-security prison to take classes . The students are selected competitively - with only a 16% acceptance rate - and receive the same rigorous education provided to Wesleyan undergrads. Here you can read ...
  1 week ago

• College Ivy Sprouts at a Connecticut Prison

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 908
  Inmates access to higher education was sharply crimped by a 1994 crime bill that made them ineligible for federal grants. But last spring, two Wesleyan University students persuaded the university to embark on a daring experiment that brings an elite college education inside a high-security prison.
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• College Ivy Sprouts at a Connecticut Prison

  
  City Room — Authority: 789
  Inmates access to higher education was sharply crimped by a 1994 crime bill that made them ineligible for federal grants. But last spring, two Wesleyan University students persuaded the university to embark on a daring experiment that brings an elite college education inside a high-security prison.
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• Rehabilitation and reintegration of former Gitmo detainees: uncertain, no guarantees

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 599
  The debate over whether to close down the US detention facilities in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba involves two basic questions. What happens to terrorist suspects after they leave the detention center at Guantanamo Bay? Can Gitmo’s terrorists be rehabilitated? There have been reports that answer the first question. Many ...
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• Illinois new felony catch & release program starts today

  
  Arresting Tales — Authority: 123
  When Governor Quinn announced in September that he was going to save money by granting early release to 1,000 inmates, I was amazed that it didnt generate much outrage. Today comes news that the releases have started, with 62 inmates being released .  The Illinois Department of Corrections assures us that only ...
  2 weeks ago

• Illinois nonviolent prisoners released early this fall, will recidivism occur?

  
  Message from Montie — Authority: 494
  Governor Pat Quinn will be releasing 62 of 1,000 nonviolent prison inmates this fall to save Illinois $5 million, according to Chicago Breaking News . The nonviolent inmates are drug offenders and those convicted of nonviolent property crimes, but homicide or sex offenders will not be released, according to CBS2 ...
  2 weeks ago

• On SCOTUS Cases And Juveniles In Jail For Life

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 735
  My social work field placement was in the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court in 1989-1990.  A large chunk of my work was conducting a part of the process performed that leads to the clinicians providing information to the jurists so that they can decide whether or not a minor is “amenable” to treatment or other ...
  2 weeks ago

• On SCOTUS Cases and Juveniles in Jail for Life

  
  Writes Like She Talks — Authority: 510
  My social work field placement was in the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court in 1989-1990.  A large chunk of my work was conducting a part of the process performed that leads to the clinicians providing information to the jurists so that they can decide whether or not a minor is “amenable” to treatment or other ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bipartisan desire for grown-up talk about drugs not likely to be fulfilled

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 676
  In an oddly rational television conversation on politics, the Independence Institute’s Jon Caldara hosted state Sen. John Morse and Attorney General John Suthers in an exploration of sentencing reform this weekend on the Institute talk show Independent Thinking. The last segment touched on drugs. Here suddenly you ...
  3 weeks ago

• 07:25 - How do we deal with pedophiles, once they have served their time? Thats the vexing question 4 Corners examines this week ... (audio)

  
  Collectors — Authority: 823
  Glen Bartholomew is talking to reporter Liz Jackson
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• TX - Sex Offenders who complete Texas treatment program 61% less likely to commit new crime

  
  Sex Offender Issues — Authority: 152
  Video Link View the study here An Audit Report on Selected Rehabilitation Programs at the Department of Criminal Justice March 2007 Report Number 07-026 Overall Conclusion Three of five programs auditors evaluated at the Department of Criminal Justice (Department) reduced recidivism (re-arrest and ...
  4 weeks ago

• SCOTLAND - Scotland Ups The Protection Level Against Repeat Sex Offenders

  
  Sex Offender Issues — Authority: 152
  View the article here 10/26/2009 By Scottish Government Fewer than one in 60 of Scotland’s registered sex offenders reoffended in 2008-09, according to figures published today. Data showing how police, prison and local authorities currently work together to manage sex offenders and protect the public has ...
  4 weeks ago

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