We will celebrate Bill’s life together at a memorial service. All who knew him are welcome. Come hear and share stories about what he meant to you. The service will be Saturday, December 14, 2024, from 11:00am – 1:00pm at the O’Brien Funeral home. Light refreshments will be served. O’Brien Funeral Home 146 Dorchester Street … Read more
The CPCS Community Leadership Award will go to a person or organization dedicated to the work that we do and the communities that we serve. The winner of this award will have undertaken a forward-looking campaign, or be committed to an ongoing mission, that directly benefits our clients and the communities in which they live … Read more
GBH NEWS LOCAL Boston invests $1 million to help people returning from prisons and jails Stacey Borden, president/founder of New Beginnings Re-Entry Services Inc., speaks at a march in Nubian Square in Boston’s Roxbury on June 9, 2020.Photo by Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via Getty Images By Gal Tziperman Lotan Liz Neisloss February 28, … Read more
WHAT FOLLOWS PUNISHMENT? Data shows that community-support circles decrease rates of sex-offender recidivism. One program may lead the way when it comes to reintegrating offenders into society. Aviva StahlSEP—26—2019 01:01PM EST When people convicted of sex offenses in the United States finish their criminal sentences, they generally face a slew of regulations and restrictions — … Read more
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/23/arlington-judge-must-decide-if-nonviolent-sex-offender-should-stay-incarcerated-after-serving-his-sentence/
https://washingtonspectator.org/koeppel-gulags/ June 4, 2019 By Barbara Koeppel in Health, Politics Back in 1997, the Supreme Court ruled that the practice known as civil commitment was legal. This meant that 20 states—which had passed laws permitting the ongoing incarceration of sex offenders—could continue to keep the men confined even after they completed their prison terms. (See “Sex Crimes and Criminal … Read more
The Feminist & The Sex Offender
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Here it is hot off the presses https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/2019/03/26/12545.pdf Commonwealth v. Feliz in which the court says: “We conclude that, in the circumstances of this case, the Commonwealth’s particularized reasons for imposing GPS monitoring on this defendant do not outweigh the privacy invasion that GPS monitoring entails. Accordingly, as applied to this defendant, GPS monitoring is … Read more