Archive for the ‘Sex Panic’ Category

Send Joseph Allen a Get-Well Card

Saturday, April 7th, 2018

Most of you are familiar with the sad case of Joseph Allen.

Joseph has been having health problems lately. Most recently, he developed an uncontrollable nosebleed. He had to be taken from prison to a hospital. The problem was finally corrected by surgery.

I got a call from Joseph this morning. He is back in prison and wounded reasonably well.

Joseph loves to get cards. Here is his addredd:

Joseph Lee Allen #A293-486
Grafton Correctional Institution
2500 South Avon Beldon Road
Grafton, Ohio 44044-9802

The Sex Offender Registry: Vengeful, unconstitutional and due for full repeal

Monday, March 5th, 2018

As Clarence Darrow famously said, “You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free.” Protecting the constitutional rights of everyone, even those convicted of sex offenses, is of the upmost importance for protecting our freedom. Therefore, both legislators — by way of developing and amending laws — and judges — via hearing arguments and creating case law — must re-examine SORNA in order to preserve liberty and uphold the Constitution.

Read the article by Jesse Kelley in The Hill.

What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo

Friday, February 23rd, 2018

“Whether formulated for political organizing (the right’s ‘Save Our Children’), or inflated/concocted from real claims (the priest scandal), or entirely concocted (the day-care frenzy), or fueled by exaggerated statistics and unstable definitions (the college ‘hunting ground’), these panics have shared features. Sex figures as a preternatural danger, emotion swamps reason, monsters abound, and protection demands any sacrifice.”

Read the article by JoAnn Wypijewski in The Nation.

Should the Sex Offender Registry be Abolished? A Live Debate

Thursday, February 15th, 2018

For the affirmative: NCRJ Director Dr. Emily Horowitz

For the negative: Marci Hamilton from CHILD USA

Watch here.

Send Bob Halsey a Birthday Card

Tuesday, February 13th, 2018

Bob Halsey turns 89 on February 18th. I am surprised he is still alive. He has been in bad health for years.

Bob is an innocent man who has been in prison since September of 1993. He will die in prison. And even if by some miracle he were to be released, he has nowhere to go and no one to take him in.

Bob was railroaded by many of the same characters who sent Bernard Baran to prison. Baran’s prosecutor, Dan Ford, was the trial judge. Jane Satullo was the chief interrogator of the children.

You can learn more about his case.

Here is the address for cards:

Robert C. Halsey
W-55045
POB 1218
Shirley MA 01464

Death, assaults and sex offenses: Life behind Central New York Psychiatric Center’s walls

Wednesday, February 7th, 2018

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 Central New York Psychiatric Center. Much of the violence involved the mentally ill men locked up there, and it unfolded without the independent monitor required by law.

“From rapes and beatings to illicit drug use and falsified treatment records, the incidents offered a rare look into problems inside the closely guarded psychiatric center, according to records obtained by The Journal News/lohud through Freedom of Information Law requests.”

Read the expoby David Robinson in The Journal News.

A new prison post from my good friend, Gunther Fiek

Monday, February 5th, 2018

https://guntherfiek.net/2018/02/05/inside-the-fence-life-unhindered-2/

Is Jerry Sandusky Innocent?

Saturday, January 6th, 2018

Trial by Therapy:

The Jerry Sandusky Case Revisited

“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 been almost entirely ignored by reviewers. Yet it comes with the strong endorsement of a world-renowned psychologist and memory expert, Elizabeth Loftus, and a leading expert on coercive interrogation methods and false confessions, Richard A. Leo. If they are right, Mark Pendergrast’s 391-page The Most Hated Man in America: Jerry Sandusky and the Rush to Judgment can erase the shame of both Penn State and Sandusky, who languishes in solitary confinement, for 22 hours a day, in a maximum-security state prison.”

Read the review by Frederick Crews of Mark Pendergrast’s provocative and important new book in Skeptic.

An Empty Manger

Monday, December 25th, 2017

A Christmas prison post from my friend, Gunther Fiek:

An Empty Manger

After 28 years wrongly imprisoned for child molestation, man’s case dismissed

Friday, December 15th, 2017

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, so they accused Young instead.”

Read the article by Tresa Baidas in the Detroit Free Press.