Comrade Hoski Has Got A Newish High-Flying Position

How the Soviets used their own twisted version of psychiatry
to suppress political dissent

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@Ruth_E_Mann this news story about sex offender treatment seems rather simplistic, right? http://t.co/BvyqwqSYt9
— BenCrewe (@crewebencrewe) January 28, 2015

@Psylegal @crewebencrewe @Ruth_E_Mann here is a clue - one cannot 'treat' human nature.
— The OSC (@OSC______P) January 28, 2015

@Ruth_E_Mann @Psylegal @crewebencrewe One cannot apply medical paradigms, to a non-medical issue (except 'accidentally') ...
— The OSC (@OSC______P) January 28, 2015

@Psylegal @crewebencrewe @Ruth_E_Mann - Szasz taught us that.
— The OSC (@OSC______P) January 28, 2015

@Psylegal @crewebencrewe @Ruth_E_Mann It appears that David Ho, has slipped out some, still functioning, Soviet institution.
— The OSC (@OSC______P) January 28, 2015

I was on @bbc5live at 10am today, about what works in reducing reoffending by sex offenders. To read more, try this: http://t.co/kxbeF54Iom
— Lydia Guthrie (@Lydia_Guthrie) January 28, 2015

@crewebencrewe @Ruth_E_Mann The Clinical Research Lead at the SEPT Secure Mental Health Services wants to section people. Surprise
— Zen o'Poesis (@XenoPoesis) January 28, 2015

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12:01AM GMT 28 Jan 2015

Sex therapy in prisons does not stop rapists reoffending, warns expert

"David Ho, a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, said there was no evidence to show that therapy prevented further offending."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11372442/Sex-therapy-in-prisons-does-not-stop-rapists-reoffending-warns-expert.html

Last updated: Today at 12am PST 

Sexual offending treatment programmes in prisons and hospitals are ineffective 

"The majority of offenders released back into society still pose the same level of risk as they did before the treatment programme, and this fails victims and the public, he argues.

"Professional pride or political embarrassment cannot justify persisting with a programme that leaves the public at risk of further sex offending," he adds.

He calls on doctors to take responsibility for the treatment of sexual offenders.

Rehabilitation could involve mandatory detention in mental health hospitals under the Mental Health Act 1983 and only proven treatments should be used to rehabilitate offenders effectively, he argues. Treatments must be supported through robust research to demonstrate efficacy, which the current treatment programme clearly lacks, he adds."

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/288522.php

Jan 27, 2015 10:38 PM EST 

Sex Therapy In Prison Does Not Deter [sic] Some Offenders 

"New research on sex offenders in prison shows that since 1991, sexual offenders in prisons and psychiatric hospitals are not benefiting from treatment."

http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/21688/20150127/sex-therapy-in-prison-does-not-deter-some-offenders.htm

Published 27 January 2015 

Ineffective treatment of sex offenders fails victims

"Sexual offending therefore consists of a heterogeneous group of acts, which may not include but are likely to include at least some elements of paraphilia.

Considering this heterogeneity, the question of whether sex offending is even a disorder in need of treatment is another debate. And the reality is that society and policy makers look to doctors for answers."

http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h199 

http://press.psprings.co.uk/bmj/january/sexoftreat.pdf

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David Ho

http://www.sept.nhs.uk/about-us

david.ho@nhs.net

Irish - We Are Saying Nothing

The OSC

Mentally Unfit To Be Tried In Criminal Court

28 February 2014 Last updated at 02:59

Broadmoor Hospital: Inside a Victorian 'lunatic asylum'

"It is 150 years since Broadmoor Hospital opened its doors to patients of both sexes who were deemed mentally unfit to be tried in criminal courts. Now a new hospital is being built next door, with plans to redevelop some of the original Victorian buildings.

Take a look back at what life in the Berkshire hospital used to be like - and see what the future holds - with archivist Mark Stevens the author of Broadmoor Revealed, and Broadmoor's clinical director Dr Kevin Murray."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26335033

Licence To Thrill

January 2014

On licence for a sex offence [sic]

"By Francesca Cooney Advice & Information Manager Prison Reform Trust

The Prison Reform Trust has produced a new leaflet.

On licence for a sex offence [sic]

The Prison Reform Trust has produced a new leaflet. This is for people who are on licence for a conviction for a sex offence [sic]. The leaflet covers release on licence, the sex offenders' register [sic], police monitoring of sex offenders [sic] (MAPPA), SOPO (Sex Offences [sic] Prevention Orders) and when information can be disclosed about you."

http://www.insidetime.org/articleview.asp?a=1658&c=on_licence_for_a_sex_offence

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On Licence for a sex offence? Prison Reform Trust has produced a new leaflet. January Inside Time - on-line NOW! http://t.co/O665cmDNwW
— Inside Time (@InsideTimeUK) January 2, 2014

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The UK Death Sentence - The SOPO

31 Oct 2013 15:27

'Serial voyeur' found dead in his prison cell, sparking murder investigation

"AG, 73, was serving a nine-month sentence after he was found lying on the floor in women's toilets at a shopping centre Lincoln Prison.

A 73-year-old prisoner serving a nine-month sentence for voyeurism has been found dead in his cell, sparking a murder investigation.

AG, a serial peeping tom, was jailed in October after he was found lying on a cubicle floor in the women's toilets of a Leicester shopping centre.

An ambulance was called after staff found him in his cell at Lincoln Prison at around 5.45am this morning, but he was pronounced dead at the scene the Prison Service said.

A 35-year-old male inmate - understood to have been sharing a cell with G - has been arrested in connection with the incident, Lincolnshire Police said, as it opened a murder investigation.

G was jailed after admitting voyeurism and breaching a sexual offences prevention order which was imposed in 2009. It had banned him from loitering near or entering female toilets for five years, according to reports.

While jailing G for nine months, Judge Robert Brown at Leicester Crown Court also extended the order - banning him from ladies' lavatories for the rest of his life."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/serial-voyeur-alan-goode-found-2661211

Prisoner death murder probe

http://www.itv.com/news/story/2013-10-31/murder-probe-launched-after-73-year-old-found-dead-in-prison-cell

HMP Lincoln murder probe as inmate AG found dead

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-24762623

Serious safety failings found at Lincoln jail last year

http://www.itv.com/news/story/2013-10-31/murder-probe-launched-after-73-year-old-found-dead-in-prison-cell

Eh Kirsty, No Problem ... It Happens ... Just Like Rape, Really

9:00am Monday 21st October 2013 

'I'm sorry for my rape lie'

 "Kirsty Debanks, left, with her mum Rhea Debanks Kirsty Debanks, left, with her mum Rhea Debanks

A WOMAN jailed for making a false rape claim says the lie cost her “everyone’s respect”.

Kirsty Debanks said she was in a “bad place” when she made the allegation against her boyfriend and regretted it instantly.

The 21-year-old – who alleged Chris Newitt raped her in her home last July – urged women not to make the mistakes she did.

A council sexual abuse boss last night said false allegations can put off genuine rape victims from going to police [oh, is that all - anything else?].

After the claim, Mr Newitt was arrested, interviewed and held for about six hours."

"Debanks – released in August from an eight months prison sentence – said: “I said it and I wanted to retract it straight away."

http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/10751320._I_m_sorry_for_my_rape_lie_/

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PUBLISHED: 11:43, 27 October 2013 | UPDATED: 11:43, 27 October 2013

Young mother jailed for making two false rape claims within hours after getting drunk and sleeping with friend's partner

>Ashleigh Loder, 25, was jailed for 6 months for perverting course of justice.
>Drunk on vodka, she told police two men raped her in an alley way.
>But later accused her friend's partner after tests disproved her story.
>Defence told court: 'Who knows what was going on in her mind'.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2477790/Young-mother-jailed-making-false-rape-claims-hours-getting-drunk-sleeping-friends-partner.html

Because, Jo, It Never Happened

The Phoenix Post @ThePhoenixPost

https://twitter.com/ThePhoenixPost 

Julie Meese @Megajules01

https://twitter.com/Megajules01

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More of the jokes, lies and disinformation - here ...

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31 Aug 2005 00:00

EXCLUSIVE: PERVERT [offensive and inflammatory] RUNS CHILD ABUSE WEBSITE [sic] FROM HIS JAIL CELL [ :) ]

"A TWISTED teacher [ouch, my back] jailed for downloading 11,000 vile images [sic] of children is masterminding a website for paedophiles [sic] from behind bars [ :) ]."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/exclusive-pervert-runs-child-abuse-555549#.UmEFk_tMzZk.twitter

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Stupid is, as stupid does ... 

MAMAAUK @MAMAAUK

https://twitter.com/MAMAAUK

https://twitter.com/ShyKeenan 

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More to follow.

The Futility And Mind-Numbing Frustration Of Prison - Not Fit For Purpose

‘The futility and mind-numbing frustration of prison’

"REVIEW: I am already on record as saying that there are not enough books about the true British prison experience, and this book is a welcome addition to that small number already in print, writes Noel ‘Razor’ Smith. Jonathan Robinson is an engaging writer with an eye for the characters and absurdities you would meet serving a short prison sentence."

http://thejusticegap.com/News/the-futility-and-mind-numbing-frustration-of-prison

Jonathan Robinson

https://twitter.com/IN_IT_THE_BOOK

Roberto Perrone (02:50:00)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01frryq

She Is Sharp (As A Turd), Is That Vera Baird

Ms Vera Baird - Hypocritical Mistress Of Hole-Plugging and Fast Cars

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20 Sep 2013 12:24

Judge joins forces [independent?] with Vera Baird over sex offenders' jail sentences

"A top judge is backing police commissioner Vera Baird in her fight to get tougher [why tough, Vera?] prison sentences for convicted sex offenders.

A top judge has joined forces with police commissioner Vera Baird in a bid to stop convicted sex offenders walking free [sic].

Vera Baird believes there is a ‘loophole’ [hahahaha] in sentencing laws [no, they are clear] which means offenders convicted of crimes such as downloading or making images of child abuse are sometimes given non-custodial sentences so that they can be put on Sex Offender Treatment Programmes quickly.

Northumbria’s Police and Crime Commissioner said, under current guidelines, a custodial sentence of two years or more is needed for those convicted of such crimes to undergo an accredited 39-week sex offender treatment programme in prison."

http://www.thejournal.co.uk/news/north-east-news/judge-joins-forces-vera-baird-6070031

Police boss’s [police's boss !!!] call to plug sex offender loophole [sic]

http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/crime/police-boss-s-call-to-plug-sex-offender-loophole-1-6068858

Commissioner wins influential support in battle over sex offender loophole [sic]

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/10686368.Commissioner_wins_influential_support_in_battle_over_sex_offender_loophole/

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23 June 2010 Last updated at 18:39

Ex-solicitor general Vera Baird banned from driving

"Vera Baird Vera Baird represented Redcar from 2001 to May 2010.

The former solicitor general Vera Baird has been banned from driving for six months after travelling at nearly 100mph along the M4 motorway.

Magistrates in Pontypridd rejected the QC's arguments to keep her licence. She claimed it would cause her hardship winding up her parliamentary affairs.

Former MP Baird, of Crouch End, London, lost her Redcar seat in May's election.

She was given five penalty points, which added to those already on her licence gave her an automatic ban.

She was also fined £400.

Baird, 60, had previously been found guilty in her absence but the case was reopened when she explained she had never received a summons."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10396311

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then ... 

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Published on the 22 August 2013

Speeding drivers targeted

"Speeding and inconsiderate drivers are being targeted in a crackdown on anti-social behaviour in the Alnwick area.

Officers have been working with community volunteers on a Speedwatch scheme as well as visiting local schools to reinforce safety messages to the drivers of the future.

The crackdown has the backing of the Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner Vera Baird, who is encouraging anyone concerned about anti-social behaviour to get in touch so action can be taken.

Neighbourhood Inspector Paul Truscott said: “Residents and local councillors at public forums have raised the issue of motorists driving at speed on rural roads causing a danger."

http://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/local-news/speeding-drivers-targeted-1-5974105

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Anti-social indeed, Vera, in fact, actually, extremely, dangerous - should be locked-up.

Yet It Has By Far The Lowest Reoffending Rate In Europe

Monday 25 February 2013 08.00 GMT

The Norwegian prison where inmates are treated like people

"On Bastoy prison island in Norway, the prisoners, some of whom are murderers and rapists, live in conditions that critics brand 'cushy' and 'luxurious'. Yet it has by far the lowest reoffending rate in Europe An inmate sunbathes on the deck of his bungalow on Bastoy. An inmate sunbathes on the deck of his bungalow on Bastoy.

The first clue that things are done very differently on Bastoy prison island, which lies a couple of miles off the coast in the Oslo fjord, 46 miles south-east of Norway's capital, comes shortly after I board the prison ferry. I'm taken aback slightly when the ferry operative who welcomed me aboard just minutes earlier, and with whom I'm exchanging small talk about the weather, suddenly reveals he is a serving prisoner – doing 14 years for drug smuggling. He notes my surprise, smiles, and takes off a thick glove before offering me his hand. "I'm Petter," he says.

Before he transferred to Bastoy, Petter was in a high-security prison for nearly eight years. "Here, they give us trust and responsibility," he says. "They treat us like grownups." I haven't come here particularly to draw comparisons, but it's impossible not to consider how politicians and the popular media would react to a similar scenario in Britain."

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/feb/25/norwegian-prison-inmates-treated-like-people?view=mobile

Wednesday 4 September 2013

Bastoy: the Norwegian prison that works

"Arne Kvernvik Nilsen, the departing governor of a prison with a reoffending rate of just 16%, shares the secrets of his remarkable success."

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/04/bastoy-norwegian-prison-works

Imprisoned Between Ages 14 To 47, Released On Licence In August 2012

Ben Gunn, the blogging prisoner locked in a strugglePublished on Aug 5, 2013 

Beyond the Four Walls - Short Documentary 

"As the re-offending rates in the UK continue to increase, a team of film-makers set out to see how the current state of the prison system effects the people who work and live in it. Ben Gunn (arrested for murder in 1982) and a large host of contrasting voices including Prison wardens and other ex-criminals provide an interesting perspective on the situation. Beyond the four walls attempts to explore how the stigma attached to prisoners (rightly or wrongly) shapes the lives of those who leave it."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrQ05TeM34U#t=59

BEN'S PRISON BLOG - Lifer On The Loose 

http://prisonerben.blogspot.co.uk

Mokurai Consulting

http://www.mokuraiconsulting.com

Ben Gunn

https://twitter.com/prisonerben

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Ben Gunn, the blogging prisoner locked in a struggle

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2009/oct/07/ben-gunn-blogging-prisoner-aop

Ben Gunn: murder, love and life after prison

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/15/ben-gunn-murder-love-life-after-prison

A More Leisurely Pursuit

Library Image

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Wednesday 4 September 2013

Over-50s make up third of inmates at prison for sex offenders

"HMP Bure near Norwich has specially adapted cells, wheelchair pushers and 26 bowls teams, inspectors' report reveals

An English prison that specialises in holding and treating sex offenders has so many prisoners over the age of 50 that it has 26 teams competing in its bowls club, jail inspectors have revealed.

HMP Bure, near Norwich, is one of five specialist jails in England and Wales dedicated by the prison service to cope with the surge in convicted sex offenders.

The number of older prisoners convicted for sex offences has nearly doubled over the past decade, with the jailing of high-profile offenders such as the BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall only the tip of the iceberg of convictions for offences that date back to the 1970s.

The latest official inspection report on Bure prison discloses that 183 of its 500 inmates are over 50, with the oldest aged 84. "The prison had scheduled in monthly mental health awareness training for the coming year, which contained a section on the signs of dementia," said the inspectors who visited in May. "Several activities co-ordinated by the gym were specifically for the over-50s, including a bowls club, which had 26 teams.""

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/04/over-50s-inmates-prison-sex-offenders?CMP=twt_fd

Prisons turning into old peoples’ homes

http://www.insidetime.org/articleview.asp?a=1558&c=prisons_turning_intoold_peoples_homes#.UiePn7eQ9II.twitter

Prison Only Serves To Punish

August 24, 2013 5:26 PM

Federal Judge Refuses Prison Sentence For Convicted Sex Offender

"For a second time, a Detroit federal judge has refused to send a man to prison for possessing thousands of images of child pornography.

A federal appeals court last year had ordered Judge Arthur Tarnow to sentence R again, saying a punishment with no prison didn’t reflect the seriousness of the crime. The images showed bondage and torture.

RR returned to court Thursday and was placed on probation for several more years. Prosecutors had asked for a three-year prison sentence.

WWJ Legal Analyst Charlie Langton noted there are several factors that come into play when a judge determines sentencing."

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2013/08/24/federal-judge-refuses-prison-sentence-for-convicted-sex-offender/

False Sexual Allegations - Lot Of It About, It Seems

PUBLISHED: 13:50, 19 August 2013 | UPDATED: 18:20, 19 August 2013

'It's never too late to right your wrong': US daughter who sent her own father to prison for 40 years after lying that he raped her pleads for his release

">Daryl Kelly jailed in 1997 after his eldest daughter accused him of rape,
>Now 24, Chaneya Kelly said she was forced to make claim by her mother,
>Said mother Charade threatened to beat her if she did not accuse father,
>Charade Kelly signed a sworn affadavit declaring she threatened Chaneya,
>Daryl Kelly jailed for 20 to 40 years after being convicted by a jury."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2397002/Daughter-sent-father-prison-40-years-lying-raped-pleads-release.html

Daughter says she lied about her dad raping her

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/18/19936408-daughter-i-lied-and-sent-my-dad-to-prison-for-rape?lite

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Posted: Monday, August 19, 2013 4:53 am | Updated: 8:03 am, Mon Aug 19, 2013 

Hampton woman to be sentenced today for lying about sexual assault

"A Hampton woman who invented a sexual assault that sent an innocent man to prison is set to be sentenced today, clearing the way for the Virginia Court of Appeals to consider clearing his name.

Elizabeth Paige Coast, 23, falsely accused Johnathan C. Montgomery of sexually assaulting her in 2000 when she was 10 years old. She pleaded guilty in May to perjury and faces up to 10 years in prison when sentenced in Hampton Circuit Court this afternoon."

http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/state-regional/hampton-woman-to-be-sentenced-today-for-lying-about-sexual/article_cbb89e0c-08ac-11e3-a654-0019bb30f31a.html

Elizabeth Paige Coast Gets Two Months In Jail [!] For Perjury While Johnathan Montgomery, The Man She Lied About In Court, Served Four Years

http://www.onenewspage.co.uk/n/US/74vzeni8h/Elizabeth-Paige-Coast-Gets-Two-Months-In-Jail.htm

http://jonathanturley.org/2013/08/20/virginia-woman-falsely-accuses-man-of-rape-and-sends-him-away-for-four-years-before-recanting-given-just-60-days-in-jail-to-be-served-on-weekends/

Man freed from prison after serving four years when woman wrongly claimed he molested her when she was 10

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2237300/Man-freed-prison-serving-years-woman-wrongly-claimed-molested-10.html

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9 August 2013 Last updated at 11:03

False rape claim woman Cathy Richardson jailed

"Cathy Richardson Cathy Richardson was jailed for perverting the course of justice

A woman who falsely claimed she had been raped has been jailed for a year.

Cathy Richardson, 26, from Viking Court in Shoebury, Essex, told officers she had been sexually assaulted several times over two months in 2012 by a man she knew.

A man was arrested on suspicion of rape but was later released without charge after a series of interviews.

Richardson was jailed for 12 months at Basildon Crown Court after admitting perverting the course of justice."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-23629148

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10 August 2013 Last updated at 11:08

Angela England jailed over Conwy false rape allegation

"Angela England Angela England alleged rape following a night out

A mother who falsely accused a taxi driver of raping her has been jailed for 20 months at Mold Crown Court.

Angela England, 42, who was living in Conwy county at the time, admitted perverting the course of justice on 30 May last year."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-23645807

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Community Of The Wrongly Accused

http://www.cotwa.info

Falsely Accused of Sexual Abuse?

http://www.pafaa.org.uk/wordpress

False Rape Society

http://falserapesociety.blogspot.co.uk

FalseRape.Net

http://www.falserape.net

FACT

http://www.factuk.org

The latest international false rape allegations

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/356548

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False claim of abuse still haunts Chino ex-teacher

http://www.dailybulletin.com/general-news/20130805/false-claim-of-abuse-still-haunts-chino-ex-teacher

Paedo Packing Of Doom

Published: 9 hrs ago

Pervs [offensive and inflammatory] pack toys

"Exclusive [;)]

Vending machine goodies made by jailed paedos [sic]

Outrage ... Littlehey Prison in Cambs

PAEDOPHILE lags [sic] are being paid to pack kids’ toys in jail, The Sun can reveal.

Row ... a ToyVend machine

The beasts [offensive and inflammatory] — joined by perverts [offensive and inflammatory] and rapists — stuff up to 30,000 a day into capsules for vending machines.

A prison source [hahaha] said: “Some must be dreaming of the delight on the little faces these gifts will bring — it makes me sick with rage. [madness]”

Around 20 cons at a time pack the toys — models from Super Mario, Harry Potter and Disney — at category C HMP Littlehey in Cambs.

Up to 95 per cent of the lags are apparently [?] sex predators [sic].

Peter Saunders, of the National Association for People Abused in Childhood, blasted: “There’s something perverse about it.” [that is because, you are, Peter - eye of the beholder, and all that]

The foreign-made items are from ToyVend PLC, which supplies vending machines, toys, bouncy balls and sweets.

Last night HM Prison Service apologised [?] and said “immediate steps” had been taken to stop sex offenders working on the contract. But furious ToyVend — based in Rugby, Warwicks — has now axed its work with the jail.

It said: “We’re very disturbed to hear about this.”"

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/5013479/Pervert-prisoners-pack-toys-in-prison.html

11 Products You Didn't Know Were Made By Prisoners

http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2013/06/13/prisoners-made-products

SARNwich Anyone?

July 2013

The non-sense of prison psychology

"Anthony Boden uncovers the inconsistencies of a ‘pseudoscience’

I am a post-tariff IPP. Along with many others in the same position to say that I am frustrated by this sentence would be a gross understatement. My biggest complaint is the government-prescribed, psychological abuse delivered in the form of Offending Behaviour Programmes. There is no scientific basis behind OBPs, which are nothing more than psychological experiments. This country condemned the Nazi’s for conducting psychological experiments on prisoners during World War II, and yet we allow this travesty to continue upon our own shores and in our own prisons. Every intelligent being should ask themselves how this inexcusable position has arisen and what can be done to resolve the issue. I have already formulated my own theories, which I will explain with the help of some of the greatest minds in history.

It was Marie Curie who said, ‘Nothing in life is to be feared, only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that you may fear less ...’"

http://www.insidetime.org/articleview.asp?a=1515&c=the_nonsense_of_prison_psychology

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4/7/2013

"As a forensic (though not prison) psychologist, I have a great deal of sympathy with Anthony's frustrations. However, quoting Feynman is a bit risky, partly because he wasn't a psychologist, and partly because his views must be somewhat out of date as he is somewhat dead (25 years ago this year). Also, he is somewhat wrong - for example, in stating that psychological experiments don't get repeated. Anyway, none of this actually bears on the scientific status (or otherwise) of present day UK risk assessment.

There has actually been some respectable scientific investigation of risk assessment techniques. For example, a couple of studies have recently investigated the SARN, and demonstrated that the allegedly "dynamic" factors assessed do not have any predictive power over and above that of the static factors of the Risk Matrix 2000. In other words, if someone is assessed using the SARN, this cannot tell us anything at all about his risk before "treatment", his risk after "treatment", or any improvement during it. Therefore, assessments of alleged "unmet treatment needs" which depend upon the SARN are scientifically invalid. I have seen such an assessment successfully challenged in a parole hearing (the man was released) and am astonished that no one has apparently challenged it in the High Court. This is even more astonishing, because studies have been available for as long as 15 years showing that certain "risk factors" routinely assessed in sex offenders are in fact not risk factors at all. A 2005 study concluded: “Many of the variables commonly addressed in sex offender treatment programs (e.g., psychological distress, denial of sex crime, victim empathy, stated motivation for treatment) had little or no relationship with sexual or violent recidivism.” Yet people carry on as if nothing had happened.

Another practice which has been scientifically investigated, and shown to be invalid, is the practice of "adjusting" static risk assessments in the light of clinical information. For example, saying something like "the Risk Matrix 2000 says this man is low risk, but in the light of XYZ I would estimate his risk as medium". A number of studies have shown that altering a static risk assessment in this way reduces its accuracy. Always. This is mathematically inevitable, because clinical estimation of risk has been scientifically demonstrated to be very poor, and mixing a poor predictor with a better one reduces the overall accuracy to the level of the poor one. Static risk predictors are not fantastic, but they are about 65 to 70% accurate, which may sound impressive until you realise that you can get 50% accuracy by tossing a coin. Still, they do better than chance.

What worries me is that those doing the risk assessment seem very often not to be aware of how limited it is. They should be."

http://www.insidetime.org/articleview.asp?a=1515&c=the_nonsense_of_prison_psychology

SARN and SOTP useless: Official

https://sites.google.com/site/forpsychadvice/home/anns/sarnandsotpuselessofficial

One Idiot, Multiple Morons

9 Jul 2013 17:42

RE: Facebook troll jailed for 28 months for bogus threats to kill on memorial pages

"The 24-year-old used a fake name to make his sick remarks alongside tributes to 17-year-old car crash victim Caitlin Talley.

A Facebook troll who made bogus threats [really?] to “kill at least 200” on memorial pages for two dead US girls was jailed for 28 months today.

He also trolled a page for a girl of 15 who died in an accident."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/reece-elliott-facebook-troll-jailed-2040938

Abducted Child Traumatised And Abused 8 Times In One Night

Published: 11 hrs ago

'Teacher had sex with girl pupil 8 times in one night’

"Pal's court claim

A MARRIED teacher accused of abducting a 15-year-old pupil had sex with her EIGHT times in one night, a court was told yesterday.

JF, 30, slept with the girl “multiple times” in a hotel after a shopping trip to Kent, jurors heard.

In a police interview played to the court, a pal of the schoolgirl said: “One time she told me they went to a shopping centre. I think it was Bluewater. “They went for a meal after and stayed in a hotel. She said they had sex multiple times — it was seven or eight times. That was during the summer.""

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4973095/Teacher-had-sex-with-girl-pupil-8-times-in-one-night.html

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Teacher JF found guilty of child abduction

http://www.channel4.com/news/teacher-jeremy-forrest-guilty-child-abduction?google_editors_picks=true

'I love you', he mouthed from the dock. 'I'm sorry', the girl sobbed as the jury said guilty: Pupil, 16, who fled to France with teacher vows to wait for him as it emerges they are STILL a couple

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2345445/Jeremy-Forrest-I-love-mouthed-dock-Im-sorry-girl-sobbed-jury-said-guilty.html?ITO=google_news_rss_feed&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=google_news_rss_feed&google_editors_picks=true

How often do abusive [sic] teacher-pupil relationships occur?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22989030

JF's relationship with his pupil 'was abusive' [sic]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/20/jeremy-forrest-relationship-pupil-abusive

JF jailed for five-and-a-half years after admitting sex offence charges

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10134276/Jeremy-Forrest-jailed-for-five-and-a-half-years-after-admitting-sex-offence-charges.html

JF is a creep, even if his pupil doesn't think so

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/21/jeremy-forrest-creep-pupil-sex-teenagers

JF sentencing: Live updates as teacher is jailed for abduction and sexual activity with a child

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jeremy-forrest-sentencing-live-updates-1973835

JF trial: Paedophile [sic] teacher's family call for full examination of what went wrong

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jeremy-forrest-trial-paedophile-teachers-1975061

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Ben Rankin

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/authors/ben-rankin/

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Late, Sun, rubbish ...

JF jailed for five and a half years

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4978889/Teacher-Jeremy-Forrest-pleads-guilty-to-child-sex-offences.html

Teen girl: JF tried to groom me as well

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4979810/teen-girl-jeremy-forrest-wanted-me-as-well.html

I still love him

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4979372/Schoolgirl-abducted-by-Jeremy-Forrest-tells-The-Sun-I-still-love-him.html

I will wait for you

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4978143/Jeremy-Forrest-girl-still-loves-teacher.html

Jailed Scottish teacher JF banned from seeing the schoolgirl he abducted after prison bosses seize their love letters

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/jailed-scottish-teacher-jeremy-forrest-2012163

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Paedophile [sic] JF 'attacked by fellow prisoner' while he was standing trial for abducting schoolgirl

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2347134/Paedophile-Jeremy-Forrest-attacked-fellow-prisoner-standing-trial-abducting-schoolgirl.html

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Sentencing remarks of His Honour Judge Lawson QC

http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/Resources/JCO/Documents/Judgments/sentencing-remarks-hhj-lawson-qc-r-v-forrest.pdf

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Published: 25th June 2013

F's sister: don't call my brother a paedophile

"Carrie Hanspaul ... loyal to jailed brother JF

THE SISTER of jailed teacher JF is adamant her brother is not a paedophile [correct] – despite having sex with his 15-year-old pupil [indeed, you have been told ... many times].

The 33-year-old told ITV's Daybreak: “She was 15, she’s not 11. Underage, but the general [much more than that] definition of a paedophile is somebody who is interested in pre-pubescent girls [or boys] generally under the age of 11."

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4983032/jeremy-forrests-sister-dont-call-my-brother-a-paedophile.html

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JF case: Twitter users could have broken the law

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jun/26/jeremy-forrest-twitter-users

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‘I refused to testify against J so the judge had me arrested at school’

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4992697/Abducted-schoolgirl-tells-of-Jeremy-Forrest-trial.html

I fell for him in detention, we kissed in his classroom early before the bell rang

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4990436/Abducted-schoolgirl-tells-how-she-fell-for-teacher-Jeremy-Forrest.html#ixzz2Y3cOJqMj

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Abduction scandal school’s head is told to quit

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4992784/Jeremy-Forrest-school-headmaster-told-to-resign.html

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Mum 35: I seduced boy at 16, I’m not ashamed – the sex is great

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/real_life/4996076/Mum-35-I-seduced-boy-of-16-Im-not-ashamed-the-sex-is-great.html

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Teacher gets 5.5 years – “We’ve lost the sentencing plot”

http://converseprisonnews.com/2013/06/21/teacher-gets-5-5-years-weve-lost-the-sentencing-plot/

Please Mark, You Are Confusing Them With Correct Facts - That Is When They Turn Nasty

https://twitter.com/ShyKeenan

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Mark Easton

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/correspondents/markeaston/

Mark Easton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Easton

Mark Easton

https://twitter.com/BBCMarkEaston

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Not that we agree with you, on all your points, Mark.

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April killer Mark Bridger slashed in jail

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/5004041/mark-bridger-attacked-in-prison.html

Sudden Urges

Friday, May 24, 2013, 7:48 AM

Judge slashes sentence for Virginia teacher who slept with student, citing diagnosis of hypersexuality

"Former Rustburg teacher KC, 33, only has to serve four months of her 11-year sentence after a judge ruled she could not control her sudden sexual urges.

KC, a former teacher in Rustberg, Va. who admitted to having a sexual relationship with a student, will serve just four months in jail.

A Virginia high school teacher who slept with a student will only spent four months of her 11-year sentence behind bars after she was diagnosed with hypersexuality.

KC, 33, will be freed more than a decade early after a judge ruled she could not control the sudden sexual urges that took over her body...."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/judge-slashes-sentence-va-student-sex-case-article-1.1353552