People convicted of possessing child pornography receive long sentences, but new data suggest they are rarely arrested for contact offenses after their release.
The policy imposed an additional form of ritual humiliation on a reviled category of people without any plausible public-safety justification.
A federal judge says an anti-porn group's suit against Twitter can move forward, in a case that could portend a dangerous expansion of how courts define "sex trafficking."
Five men face "trafficking a person for sexual servitude" charges after meeting an undercover cop at a hotel.
The men must keep masturbation diaries, wear ankle monitors, and even use penile circumference gauges.
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Not all sexual misdeeds are sex trafficking.
Programs that keep sex offenders indefinitely confined face new challenges.
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Two women still face felony charges, though the cases against all male defendants were dropped.
The practice evades constitutional constraints by casting punishment and preventive detention as treatment.
The case against the popular pornography site rests on misleading data and hidden agendas.
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Charges against Kraft were (rightfully) dismissed. The women he patronized now have criminal records.
Bonus fact: The majority opinion was written by a male judge, joined by three female judges (one of them a former sexual assault prosecutor). The dissent was written by a male judge.
A petition urges Patch and other news outlets to reconsider the practice.
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According to the appeals court, the relevant question is what legislators were trying to accomplish.
Decriminalization bills have floundered in recent months in New York and Washington, D.C, but advocates hope that the latest push for criminal justice reform could re-energize the movement.
As a state attorney, the young GOP senator oversaw raids of more than a dozen massage parlors, but he didn’t secure a single sex trafficking conviction.
This isn't a bill about fighting child porn. Don't fall for it.
Psychologist Jesus Padilla was forbidden to complete research that could have set many indefinitely committed people free. He died with the work unfinished.
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Standing up for the rights of a widely reviled group isn't for the faint of heart.
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Sarasota deputies violated best practices and ethical standards for sting operations.
The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation doesn't shed much light on the Supreme Court justice or the allegations against him.
A police procedural about rape cases that focuses on details without getting tedious
The highest court in Maryland finds that the State's statute prohibiting "child pornography" applies to minors who sext videos of their own sexual activity to friends.
Hulu's Untouchable is a relentless accounting of the mogul's sexual misdeeds.
The operation is still arresting sex workers and calling it a rescue mission.
