ACSOL 2021 Monthly Phone Conference Meetings
ACSOL holds monthly phone conference meetings, usually the third Saturday of each month at 10 am Pacific Time. They last 2 to 3 hours. They are recorded and posted here within…
CA: Sexually Violent Predator Must Move Out Of Napa, Court Rules
[patch.com - 3/30/21] NAPA COUNTY, CA — As a result of a hearing Monday in San Francisco Superior Court, a convicted sexually violent predator living in Napa County must be…
MN: Case challenging constitutionality of the Minnesota Sex Offender Program can move forward
[yahoo.com - 2/24/21] A protracted case challenging the constitutionality of Minnesota's system for treating sex offenders outside prison has gained new life after a federal appeals court in St. Louis…
TX: ‘Left to die’: Therapists say Texas sex offender treatment program too often fails on purpose
[houstonchronicle.com 2/11/21] Texas’s civil commitment program for sexually violent offenders has earned a reputation as an unforgiving place. Much of that is by design. Each of the 378 men in…
MN: Civil Commitment of Sex Offenders Pretends Prisoners Are Patients
[reason.com - 2/10/21] The practice evades constitutional constraints by casting punishment and preventive detention as treatment. Jacob Sullum | 2.10.2021 12:01 AM "It was my understanding that I was to…
MN: Sex offenders at Moose Lake end 14-day hunger strike after reaching deal with state officials
[bringmethenews.com - 2/5/21] A group of men at the Minnesota Sex Offender Program's Moose Lake facility have ended their hunger strike after nearly two weeks. The group went on strike…
New Zealand considers striking down civil commitment: Human rights test case for post-sentence detention and restrictions
[stuff.co.nz - 2/2/21] A public safety law potentially amounting to a life sentence, was double-punishment for past crimes, the Court of Appeal has been told. A rare “full bench” of…
VA: Virginia lawmakers squash repeal of civil commitment law
[13newsnow.com - 1/28/21] RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia lawmakers have squashed a proposal to repeal a decades-old Virginia law that allows the state to hold certain sex offenders at a psychiatric…
VA: Virginia bill would end civil commitment of sex offenders
[abcnews.go.com - 1/19/21] RICHMOND, Va. -- 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…
MN: Sex offenders at Moose Lake protest harsh conditions after deaths from COVID-19
[startribune.com - 1/18/21] Outbreak fuels long-simmering tensions over civil commitment after sentences. A group of sex offenders at a northern Minnesota treatment center is refusing to attend therapy sessions, while…
MN: Third COVID death at Moose Lake sex offender facility
A client housed in a Minnesota sex offender treatment facility has died from COVID-19, state officials said Monday. Friday's death at the Moose Lake facility is the third COVID-related fatality…
Taiwan: Justices urged to keep forced treatment of molesters [Updated 12/31]
[taipeitimes.com - 12/31/20] Victims’ rights groups and lawmakers yesterday urged the Council of Grand Justices to uphold the involuntary psychiatric treatment of sex offenders as the council is to hand…
New Zealand: Sex offender on preventive detention comes round to ‘path to integration
[stuff.co.nz - 12/1/20] A prisoner serving the harshest available sentence for sexual offending against children is “open to a graduated path of reintegration” and has been encouraged to get all…
Williams Institute report : Over 6,000 people are civilly committed in the US
[williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu - 10/2020] Black men and men with male victims are more likely to be committed Twenty states, the federal government, and D.C. have laws that allow for the indefinite…
IL: Inside the Endless Nightmare of Indefinite Detention Under “Civil Commitment”
[inthesetimes.com - 8/19/20] In June 2019, after serving more than 29 years in Illinois prisons, Otis Arrington expected to be released to freedom: He had finished his time, which he describes…
NJ: Obscure New Jersey ‘Treatment’ Facility Has A Higher COVID-19 Death Rate Than Any Prison In The Country
[theappeal.org - 6/4/20] With its innocuous name, the Special Treatment Unit (STU) sounds like a hospital. It’s a building in Avenel, New Jersey, housing 441 “residents,” as it calls them.…
The Truth Could Set Them Free
Why did California destroy research into a group of people it says are dangerous enough to be locked up indefinitely? In late 2006, a public defender went before a Napa…
NY: Sex offenders form PAC to try and gain political voice
[timesunion.com - 10/14/19] Voting blocs, where people support candidates on specific issues, have long played an outsized role in New York politics – from labor unions that focus on workplace…