Archive for April, 2022

Two videos from an important conference

Saturday, April 30th, 2022

Bill Dobbs of The Dobbs Wire sent us links to videos of a conference that took place in St. Paul, Minnesota on April 8, 2022: the eighth annual Understanding and Responding to Mass Incarceration (URMI) Conference. This year’s conference focused on the Minnesota Sex Offender Program — almost certainly the worst in the nation.

People convicted of sex offenses in Minnesota, regardless of the offense, receive life sentences. Supposedly they can be released if they successfully complete “treatment.” But no one ever does.

Treatment that can’t be completed is treatment that doesn’t work. And treatment that doesn’t work is not treatment.

Here are the videos:

The Morning Session

The Afternoon Session

Restorative justice for sex offenders: Please join us

Saturday, April 9th, 2022

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Sunday, April 3rd, 2022

Dr. Bernard Rosenthal is a distinguished scholar and historian who is a leading expert on the Salem Witch Trials. While serving on the Board of Directors of the National Center for Reason and Justice, he became interested in the wrongful conviction in Lorain, Ohio of Nancy Smith and Joseph Allen.

Dr. Rosenthal befriended them both and spent years carefully researching the case.

Please read his just published book, Injustice in Ohio: The Wrongful Conviction of Allen and Smith.

Click here to order directly from the publisher.

The book is also available on Amazon.