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December 7th, 2017
“The most troubling findings, the authors say, pertained to suicidal intent and victimization experiences. The study found that registered children were four times as likely to report a recent suicide attempt in the last 30 days, compared to nonregistered children. Registered children were nearly twice as likely to have experienced a sexual assault and were five times as likely to have been approached by an adult for sex in the past year. Registered children also reported higher rates of other mental health problems, more peer relationship problems, more experiences with peer violence and a lower sense of safety.”
Read the news release from Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse at Johns Hopkis University.
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Friends of Justice is a personal blog. Here I speak only for myself.
December 4th, 2017
Anyone who knows a prisoner knows how important it is to them to receive mail, especially at this time of year. Many prisoners receive no outside support at all.
I don’t care if you send a Christmas card, a holiday card, or whatever. Neither will they.
Here is a list of prisoners who’d be delighted to get a card:
https://bobchatelle.net/please-write-to-a-prisoner
Unfortunately, New Hampshire prisoners are not allowed to receive greeting cards of any sort, picture postcards, or any typewritten or printed material. Only handwritten letters on stock paper are permitted.
-Bob Chatelle
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Friends of Justice is a personal blog. Here I speak only for myself.
November 30th, 2017
Credit: Linda Rosier
Friedman’s Manhattan attorney, Ronald Kuby, called the decision “an emphatic triumph for the principles of open government” and the wrongfully convicted, who he said “will have a far easier task obtaining essential documents.”
His statement also called the ruling “a stinging rebuke to successive Nassau County district attorneys, who first created a moral panic over nonexistent sex abuse allegations and then tried to create a moral panic as to the consequences of releasing the documents that demonstrate prosecutorial misconduct.”
Read the article by Yancey Roy and Bridget Murphy in Newsday.
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November 27th, 2017
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Friends of Justice is a personal blog. Here I speak only for myself.
November 15th, 2017
Chris Pizzello / Invision/AP
“Is Kevin Spacey a criminal sexual molester? I don’t know. Neither do you, unless you were actually molested by him, or, it seems, unless you’re the Boston Globe. ‘This Was A Criminal Act,’ the Globe headline blared, repeating former local news anchor Heather Unruh’s claim that Spacey groped her son at a bar in Nantucket last summer. The single quotes around the claim that Spacey is a criminal (who has yet to be indicted except in the media) don’t mitigate the headline’s clear presumption of guilt. They simply allow the Globe to level a sensational accusation while pretending to present an unbiased account of one.”
Read the commentary by Wendy Kaminer at WGBH News.
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Friends of Justice is a personal blog. Here I speak only for myself.
October 29th, 2017
Dalton pointed to a 2013 literature review from the U.S. Department of Justice that included research on the stress that correctional officers face. The review found, in part:
- In 2011, about 31 percent of correctional officers reported “serious psychological distress,” twice the rate of the general public;
- In 2012, 27 percent of correctional officers who responded to a study indicated they were suffering from PTSD;
- “Much more research is needed to develop a better understanding of the prevalence and causes of suicide among (correctional officers).”
Read the article by Erin Mansfield in the Vermont Digger.
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October 26th, 2017
“Our communities deserve effective public-safety measures that are based on facts and sound research, not wasteful and counterproductive measures born of fear. We all want to be safe. We have to demand our legislators pass laws that work and actually keep us safe.”
Read the article by Miriam Aukerman in The Hill.
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Friends of Justice is a personal blog. Here I speak only for myself.
October 24th, 2017
Tim Gruber for The New York Times
“Few issues in education today are as intensely debated as the way colleges deal with sexual misconduct. Women’s groups and victims’ advocates have deplored Ms. DeVos’s moves, saying they will allow colleges to wash their hands of the problem. But a growing corps of legal experts and defense lawyers have argued that the Obama rules created a culture in which accused students, most of them men, were presumed guilty.”
Read the article by Anemona Hartocollis and Christina Capecchi in the Sunday New York Times.
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September 14th, 2017
An important op-ed in the New York Times by David Fiegle.
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Friends of Justice is a personal blog. Here I speak only for myself.
September 14th, 2017
In 2014, Nicas wrote a blog post for NECIR describing how main findings in his story were included in the judge’s grounds for a new trial. “There was excitement, disbelief and a sense of vindication,’’ he wrote. “Later, the feeling became relief. Not just that we were right, but that Victor Rosario was free.”
Read the report by Jennifer McKim for the New England Center for Investigative Reporting.
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