- Fourth Appearance on Crossroads Radio WPFW 89.3FM Galen’s interview
Pre-crime preventative detention and efforts to abolish it were the focus of this 45-minute interview with Galen Baughman on the Crossroads Radio show hosted by Roach Brown and Nkechi Taifa on WPFW 89.3FM, known as “Washington’s station for jazz and ...
- Obscure New Jersey “Treatment” Facility Has a Higher COVID-19 Death Rate Than Any Prison in the Country
By: Jordan Michael Smith. Jun 04, 2020
The detainees already completed their criminal sentences—but they are prevented from leaving for years. And with the ...
- March 31, 2020 Crossroads Radio WPFW 89.3FM
Pre-crime preventative detention and the stress forced upon all persons in carceral settings by the current global pandemic were the focus’ of an hour-long conversation on the Crossroads Radio show hosted by Roach Brown and Nkechi Taifa on WPFW 89.3FM, known ...
- Update on the Galen Baughman Civil Commitment trial
by Charlie Clark, September 4, 2019 5:27 PM
Our Man in Arlington.
A culture-clash of a trial will resume in late September in Arlington Circuit Court. The scantly reported-on civil procedure involves the disturbing topic of predatory sexual behavior and ... - Patrick Hope column: Virginia’s sexually violent predator laws have gone too far
By: Patrick Hope Sept 29, 2019
The “lock ’em up and throw away the key” era of criminal justice is over. Virginians have reassessed their views on criminal justice to better address mass incarceration weighed against costs and the likelihood to ...
- Sex Offenders Locked Up on a Hunch
The essence of the American criminal justice system is reactive, not predictive: You are punished for the crime you committed. You can’t be punished simply because you might commit one someday. You certainly can’t be held indefinitely to prevent that ...
- ABOUT INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL TO GERMANY UNDER IML PASSPORTS
This is a very interesting video about a man that left the United States while on probation to Permanently live in Germany as his new home to live as a free person. He shows what the new International Megan’s Law ...
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Protest Against Texas Shadow Prison in Littlefield
Salute from Just Future
There was a protest against the Texas system of so-called “sex offender civil commitment” in Littlefield, Texas on Saturday, April 09, 2022. ...
By DENISE LAVOIE — RICHMOND, Va. (AP) —
Two Virginia Democratic lawmakers are spearheading a push to repeal a decades-old law that allows the state to hold certain sex offenders at psychiatric facilities indefinitely after their criminal sentences if they are ...
The Virginia Center for Behavioral Rehabilitation (VCBR), a shadow prison in Burkeville, Virginia operating under the guise of a treatment facility, is currently in the midst of a COVID-19 outbreak; and many people locked within the ...
Beyond the Carceral Logic of Civil Commitment
Toshio Meronek and Erica Meiners (The Next System), November 10, 2017The Prison-Like Public Hospital Systems Disproportionately Packed With Gay Men
Toshio Meronek and Erica Meiners (Advocate), May 23, 2018Indefinite Imprisonments on a Hunch
Editorial Board (The New York Times), August 15, 2015Why Some Young Sex Offenders Are Held Indefinitely
George Steptoe and Antoine Goldet (The Marshall Project), January 27, 2016Why Sex Criminals Get Locked Up Forever
Aviva Stahl (Vice), April 13, 2016Phone Conferences Curtailed For Sex Offenders
Rick Karlin (Times Union), July 13, 2017Sex Crimes and Criminal Justice
Barbara Koeppel (Washington Spectator), May 4, 2018- Michael Barajas (Texas Observer), February 12, 2018
