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Sunday, July 10, 2016

NCMEC: now 851,870 registered sex offenders in U.S.

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We now have 851,870 registered sex offenders in the United States and its territories, according to the National Center for Missing and Expl...
Wednesday, July 6, 2016

legislating can be easy; legislating wisely requires more thought

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Rachel Marshall, a public defender in Oakland CA, talks about how awful sex offender laws are .  ... many of my clients would choose to t...
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Monday, July 4, 2016

complicated grief and ambiguous loss

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A friend sent me a link to the June 23 episode of the NPR program, On Being. Krista Tippett interviewed Pauline Boss, who wrote Ambiguous L...
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Saturday, June 11, 2016

open letter season on Brock Turner

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The story of the sexual assault at Stanford has generated one news story after another and innumerable Facebook rants. The story, with a per...
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Sunday, June 5, 2016

Nevada about to blunder forward with a wrong-headed law

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To comply with the federal Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, Nevada will be adding hundreds of names to the sex offender registry...
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Friday, May 13, 2016

Dear Amy: rethink your advice to sad grandma

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A recent Dear Amy advice column was a heartbreaker. A  sad grandmother  wrote: My son and daughter-in-law are separated. My son is in co...
Monday, May 2, 2016

must an inmate confess to a casual correspondent?

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Former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle responded to a letter from a woman he used to know and she released his letter to the press. The press,...
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