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Nebraska’s prison overcrowding issue is generating a lot of noise. Someone should take a hard look at how Nebraska’s harsh new law on former sex-offenders is making things worse. UNO research shows that most former sex offenders are not going to reoffend. But the new law, LB 285, creates a web of technical violations thatContinue reading “LB285 and Prison Overcrowding”

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Reason and common sense score a victory in Orange, California, where a law requiring former offenders to put signs on their doors during Halloween is repealed. There is no evidence that kids out on Halloween are at risk from former offenders. Yet politicians still try to push dumb laws like this one. MORE