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For the affirmative: NCRJ Director Dr. Emily Horowitz For the negative: Marci Hamilton from CHILD USA Watch here.

photo: david robinson/iohud “A New York State psychiatric center operated illegally with impunity while two dead bodies, 40 assaults and 25 sex offenses triggered police responses behind its walls from 2012 to 2016, The Journal News/lohud has found. “The newly obtained tally of violence, roughly one attack per month, is part of 210 criminal incidents at… Continue reading Death, assaults and sex offenses: Life behind Central New York Psychiatric Center’s walls

“For a small, progressive state, Massachusetts has an outsize record of wrongfully convicting people. The Commonwealth has paid $8.34 million to wrongfully convicted men and women since 2004, when a compensation law was enacted. From Dennis Maher to Victor Rosario to Fred Clay, it seems like every few months we’re hearing about another conviction getting overturned… Continue reading For a small, blue state, Massachusetts wrongfully convicts a lot of people

Trial by Therapy: The Jerry Sandusky Case Revisited skeptic “Can a sustained, comprehensive case be made for that inference? [That Sandusky is innocent] It already exists, in a book that was rejected by every major publisher and finally issued in November 2017 by the modest Sunbury Press of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Until now the work has… Continue reading Is Jerry Sandusky Innocent?

Mitchell Hamline School of Law – Employment Opportunity Sex Offense Litigation and Policy Fellow The Sex Offense Litigation and Policy Resource Center seeks applications for a full-time fellowship position. This is a two-year, full-time position, working directly with the director of the Center. We seek a person with superior research, writing and organizational skills, with… Continue reading Employment Opportunity

Dear Friends, Victor Rosario spent 32 years behind bars in Massachusetts for arson and homicide of eight people, including five children. Fran and Dan Keller were locked up in Texas for 21 years for “satanic ritual abuse” at their daycare center. All are innocent. This year Fran and Dan were exonerated. Victor moved a step… Continue reading Help us Fight for Reason and Justice and Real Child Protection

Mandi Wright/Detroit Free Press “Young also said that he harbors no anger toward his accusers — who were 5 and 6 years old when they accused him of molesting them, only to later recant and confess that it was their mother’s boyfriend who harmed them, not Young. They were afraid of the boyfriend, records show,… Continue reading After 28 years wrongly imprisoned for child molestation, man’s case dismissed

“Perhaps the most irrefutable statement that can be made about modern day America is this: we have a penchant for putting people in cages. More than any other nation on the planet, we rely on incarceration as the fix for our social ills.” Read the article by Guy Hamilton-Smith in Injustice Today.

“The last couple of months also echo a troublesome history, however, whose legacy persists in the law and the Zeitgeist. “When does a watershed become a sex panic?” Masha Gessen asked recently in the New Yorker. The answer: what we are witnessing are not the omens of a looming sex panic; they are the symptoms… Continue reading Will Feminism’s Past Mistakes Haunt #MeToo?

“The most troubling findings, the authors say, pertained to suicidal intent and victimization experiences. The study found that registered children were four times as likely to report a recent suicide attempt in the last 30 days, compared to nonregistered children. Registered children were nearly twice as likely to have experienced a sexual assault and were… Continue reading Children on Sex Offender Registries Are Suicide Risks