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- This is an amazing article. This reporter went undercover as a prison guard in Louisiana. It's a very long article, so make some time to read it carefully. There's a video also. Don't forget to watch that....
- I received a letter this week from an inmate at the prison where my Iowa son used to be. He claims he's a good friend of my son. Here's what he wrote. I need your opinions on what I should do about this.-----My name is S...and I'm a good friend of...
- My son is doing better and REW's advice was right! I just wanted to give everyone an update on my son's situation. If you want to read the original topic, it's here:...
- My son called me a few hours ago and was fighting back tears. He's been having some serious symptoms for the past three days...tightness in his chest and neck, nausea, shortness of breath, feeling lightheaded, and vertigo. He's pretty scared.He has...
- I received the following notification from Colorado's Advocates for Change (RSOL affiliate) today..."The Colorado Sex Offender Management Board (SOMB) just today changed the language of their guiding principle. It went from 'No Known Cure…' to...
- Here's an encouraging article. http://tinyurl.com/nzvdurrJudges rule that California’s civil commitment law could result in a “flagrant” violation of the suspect’s human rights.
- http://whotv.com/2015/10/13/newton-woman-who-had-sex-with-teen-wont-go-to-prison/If this SO were a man, do you think the outcome would be different?
- It's a long story that I don't care to get into right now, but my incarcerated son had an internal hearing today related to some charges against him that he violated prison rules. The administrative law judge (ALJ) told him he's an intelligent...
- I've read all kinds of statistics, or myth-vs-fact claims, on various web sites that I've never bothered to research on my own. However, today, I'm looking for one specific thing. Supposedly, 90 percent of sexual abuse victims know their abuser....
- Here's a letter I received from my son, who is four years down on a 20-year sentence for sex abuse of a minor. The little girl was 9 years old at the time. There was nothing forceful about the episode, but because of the vast age difference (he was...
- Let's see if I can condense this down to something manageable. I have two sons in prison with long sentences for sex offenses, one in Iowa and one in Colorado. My Colorado son's offense was against my neice, my brother's daughter, who was 22 at the...
- I'm sorry of this is off topic, but my extended family is having some difficulties with one of our twenty-something young men who has been using meth for a very long time. He has run himself into the ground so badly that he's now homeless, car-less,...
- I checked my Corrlinks account today, looking for any new messages from my son. There was an email from "admin" telling me I'm blocked from communicating with my son. Here's what it said...This message informs you that you have been blocked from...
- The following is a true story, but it has been edited so the author can remain anonymous. =====MARRIED TO A REGISTERED CITIZENHow the public registry and residency restrictions affect innocent family members of former sex offenders.Written by a...
- I had a phone interview the other day with Jennifer Bleyer, an editor at Psychology Today Magazine. I gave her a pseudonym and a phone number that would be difficult to trace back to me. She asked thoughtful questions and listened intently to my...