“Laws punishing sex offenses are still becoming harsher and more exacting, even though reported sex crimes are declining—and in fact were already declining well before these laws were passed. In consequence, the numbers keep climbing: people convicted of sex offenses are a rapidly growing segment of the prison population—up to 30% in some states—while beyond the walls of the prison, additional punishments, provisions, and ‘collateral consequences’ have been added on, virtually all of them based on flawed diagnostics and unsound prognostication.”
Read the article by National Center for Reason and Justice Director Roger Lancaster in Just Future Project.
“A shorter version of this essay was included in the program for the London run by the National Theater of the production of “Downstate” by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Bruce Norris. This is the original form of the essay, published for the first time here at Just Future Project with permission of the author.”
“In 2006, advocates with the 
