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Lawsuit Challenging Parole Board Review of Sex Offender Cases

By Corey Rayburnyung

Grits has the details on a very interesting lawsuit challenging the lack of individualized review in parole restriction decisions for sex offenders in Texas. Here is the Dallas Morning News's account of some of the history of the issues involved:It's called Condition X: tough restrictions on the way some criminals, mostly paroled sex offenders, must live once they're out of prison....Condition X determines the minutiae of their daily lives ? whether they can visit a school or attend church; whether they can live with their families or in an apartment with a swimming pool; whether they can access the Internet, work at a convenience store, even whom they can date or marry.Ms. Molnar and others say they're not championing pedophiles or rapists...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on November 13, 2008 (boomark / email).