Finding the disclosures provide information that any law enforcement agent “would love to have,” the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled Indiana’s requirement that sex offender inmates give detailed accounts of their past actions violates the Constitution’s protections against self-incrimination.
Donald Lacy, a sex offender inmate in the Indiana Department of Correction, filed a class action on behalf of all inmates who lost good-time credits and a demotion in credit class because they failed to meet the requirements of the Indiana Sex Offender Management and Monitoring program. Lacy argued the disclosures required and the penalties imposed for non-participation constituted a violation of his Fifth Amendment right to be free from compelled self-incrimination.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana agreed. It ordered the inmates’ lost good-time credits to be restored and vacated all disciplinary actions and sanctions for failure to participate in INSOMM.
Exactly why I remain so arrogant when I’m supposed to be so compliant.
The psychiatric and justice system are so inept and corrupt as to defy imagination.
If I remember correctly, there was a similar finding – possibly in Colorado – not too long ago.
This. Is. Good.
Pretty sad that something like this has to go all the way up to a federal circuit court (possibly the US Supreme Court) to settle what should be a question of common sense. More sad that the state courts keep disregarding their own laws and constitutions to keep doing it.