“And what is absolutely mind-blowing is that the SOR\u2019s have been proven not to work, and they cost the taxpayers gobs of money (see reference \u2018a\u2019 above). But now that they\u2019ve become institutionalized in the justice system, they\u2019re a political football. Now we have lots of people whose livelihoods derive from the SOR\u2019s, and an entire industry has built up around the maintenance and support of SOR\u2019s (just like the prison system). To advocate sensible, logical approaches to the problem has become political suicide for the politicians and legislators.”<\/p>\n
Read the full article<\/a> by Phil Lcoke, Science and Technology Advisor, Ohio Innocence Project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “And what is absolutely mind-blowing is that the SOR\u2019s have been proven not to work, and they cost the taxpayers gobs of money (see reference \u2018a\u2019 above). But now that they\u2019ve become institutionalized in the justice system, they\u2019re a political football. Now we have lots of people whose livelihoods derive from the SOR\u2019s, and an… Continue reading Are Sex Offender Registries Cruel and Unusual Punishment?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5281,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280\/revisions\/5281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}