Friends of Justice is a personal blog. Here I speak only for myself.
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.
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Friends of Justice is a personal blog. Here I speak only for myself.
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.
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Friends of Justice is a personal blog. Here I speak only for myself.
February 15th, 2018
For the affirmative: NCRJ Director Dr. Emily Horowitz
For the negative: Marci Hamilton from CHILD USA
Watch here.
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Friends of Justice is a personal blog. Here I speak only for myself.
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
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Friends of Justice is a personal blog. Here I speak only for myself.
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 exposé by David Robinson in The Journal News.
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Friends of Justice is a personal blog. Here I speak only for myself.
February 5th, 2018
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Friends of Justice is a personal blog. Here I speak only for myself.
February 3rd, 2018
“For a small, progressive state, Massachusetts has an outsize record of wrongfully convicting people. The Commonwealth has paid $8.34 million to wrongfully convicted men and women since 2004, when a compensation law was enacted. From Dennis Maher to Victor Rosario to Fred Clay, it seems like every few months we’re hearing about another conviction getting overturned based on bad evidence or official misconduct. What’s going on?”
Read the article by George Bullen in States of Blue.
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Friends of Justice is a personal blog. Here I speak only for myself.
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.
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Friends of Justice is a personal blog. Here I speak only for myself.
December 25th, 2017
A Christmas prison post from my friend, Gunther Fiek:
An Empty Manger
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Friends of Justice is a personal blog. Here I speak only for myself.
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.
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