On Persecution And Colleges

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20 March 2014 Last updated at 11:35

Sex offender expelled from Dundee and Angus College

"A convicted sex attacker managed to enrol on a college course despite being banned from contact with teenagers.

CD was banned from unsupervised contact with anyone under the age of 17 after sexually assaulting a young woman while driving a taxi.

But he won a place at Dundee and Angus College alongside 16-year-old girls without disclosing his criminal past."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-26664221

20 March 2014 8.00am.

Convicted sex offender thrown out of Dundee college

"A convicted sex offender has been expelled from a course at Dundee & Angus College which he secured without revealing his criminal record.

CD was able to mingle with 16-year-old female students despite being on the sex offenders register and banned from having unsupervised contact with teenagers under 17.

His presence at the Gardyne campus in Dundee, where he had enrolled on a computer course, came to the attention of his victim’s family. D was convicted of the offence in 2012."

http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/news/local/convicted-sex-offender-thrown-out-of-dundee-college-1.276226

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Sex offender expelled from Dundee & Angus College http://t.co/defx47XhG2 Students doing #mhob1314, is this an ethical and/or legal dilemma?
— Ross Bartels (@ross_bartels) March 28, 2014

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Liberty Or Not

August 2013

At liberty to do what

"Emma Davies, Head of the Prison Law department at Hine Solicitors, together with Michaela Henderson-Thynne of the Department look at licence conditions

Prisoners who have been subject to a sentence of 12 months or over and who are released from custody into the community will be subject to a licence period as part of their sentence. This licence period will include numerous licence conditions. In the latter part of last year a new Prison Service Instrument (PSI) 40/2012 was introduced dealing with the issue of licence conditions. This article examines some of the main principles of that PSI to inform prisoners who may soon be subject to release on licence of these principles and what they need to watch out for."

Internet related licence conditions. 

"There were previously very onerous additional licence conditions that could be imposed which related to computer and internet access. These can no longer be imposed upon newly released prisoners unless they are imposed as bespoke licence conditions (see 2.20 of PSI 40/2012).

An application for these old additional conditions will therefore need to be made to the Public Procircumtection Casework Section [Public Protection Casework Section] (PPCS) at the Ministry of Justice. They will then only form part of a prisoner's licence as a bespoke condition if permission is granted by the PPCS.

However there are still additional conditions that can be imposed upon a prisoner, without the need for permission from the PPCS, which relate to computer access/ownership. These are worded differently and are set out at 2.20 of PSI 40/2012."

http://www.insidetime.org/articleview.asp?a=1556&c=at_liberty_to_do_what

If You Are Going To Pretend To Do Something, Then, At Least, Do That

Monday, May 27, 2013 9:00 AM

Suffolk: Outrage [yawn] after sex offenders have treatment delayed for six months due to staff sickness

"Suffolk’s police commissioner and one of the county’s MPs have both expressed their disbelief after discovering a treatment programme for sex offenders was delayed for six months.

Probation officers have said the course was deferred due to staff sickness. However, during the six-month delay one of the offenders - convicted paedophile [sic] Daniel Veness - sexually abused a five-year-old girl.

Although Veness’ case was reported last month, a Freedom of Information request has now revealed five other convicts [sic] were also due to be on the Thames Valley Treatment Programme at the same time.

The admission has led Waveney MP Peter Aldous to brand the situation as unacceptable, while Suffolk’s Police and Crime Commissioner Tim Passmore called it “absolutely ridiculous”.

However, Norfolk and Suffolk Probation Service said there was no specific requirement as to how quickly someone should begin the treatment, only that they should complete it by the end of their sentence."

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/crime/anger_over_suffolk_sex_offenders_treatment_delay_1_2211151

Suffolk: Outrage [yawn] after sex offenders have treatment delayed for six months due to staff sickness

http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/suffolk_outrage_after_sex_offenders_have_treatment_delayed_for_six_months_due_to_staff_sickness_1_2211060

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Convicted paedophile [sic], 23, attacked a sleeping five-year-old girl after his sex offenders treatment was cancelled

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2311527/Convicted-paedophile-23-attacked-sleeping-year-old-girl-sex-offenders-treatment-cancelled.html

Convicted paedophile [sic] abused girl, 5, after probation rehab course delayed due to holiday

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/convicted-paedophile-abused-girl-5-1842635

Suffolk: Sex offender commits horrific attack [sic] on child - after his treatment was cancelled due to ‘lack of resources’

http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/suffolk_sex_offender_commits_horrific_attack_on_child_after_his_treatment
_was_cancelled_due_to_lack_of_resources_1_2086188

Chris Grayling Has Another Brain Fart

9:20PM BST 08 May 2013

All prisoners face a year of supervision upon release

"Low-level criminals who spend a few weeks or months in prison will be supervised for a year in the community after their release in an attempt to cut “shameful levels” of reoffending, the Justice Secretary will announce.

All prisoners face a year of supervision upon release.

In an article for the Daily Telegraph, Mr Grayling describes the current system as 'mad'.

Every prisoner will have to complete a year-long period of supervision that will see them returned to jail if they misbehave, under laws to toughen up the probation regime.

The plans were outlined in a Rehabilitation Bill contained in today’s Queen’s Speech. The details of the legislation will be disclosed tomorrow by Chris Grayling. It will include a pledge to introduce so-called “resettlement prisons” to relocate inmates nearing release closer to their homes.

The “rehabilitation revolution” will involve about 65,000 criminals every year being subject to lengthy community supervision — in addition to their prison sentences."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10045362/All-prisoners-face-a-year-of-supervision-upon-release.html

Queen's Speech: Probation 'extended to all offenders'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22446246

Payment-by-results plan for offender supervision under fire

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22452239

The Tighter They Squeeze, The More Will Slip Through Their Fingers

February 23, 2013

Paroled sex offenders disarming tracking devices

 "Thousands of high-risk parolees are removing GPS monitors, often with little risk of serving time, because jails are too full to hold them. Some have been charged with new crimes.

RM, a convicted child stalker, was arrested three times in two months after skipping parole and was freed almost immediately each time. After his third release, his GPS alarm went off and he vanished. Police say he subsequently molested two girls; he is back in custody on the new charges.

Thousands of paroled child molesters, rapists and other high-risk sex offenders in California are removing or disarming their court-ordered GPS tracking devices — and some have been charged with new crimes including sexual battery, kidnapping and attempted manslaughter.

The offenders have discovered that they can disable the monitors, often with little risk of serving time for it, a Times investigation has found. The jails are too full to hold them."

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/feb/23/local/la-me-sex-offenders-20130224

House OK’s ‘Justin’s Law’ for repeat sex offenders

http://blog.chron.com/texaspolitics/2013/05/house-oks-justins-law-for-repeat-sex-offenders/

What Else Is There In Most PSRs?

Last updated at 16:36, Tuesday, 04 September 2012

Barrow sex offender sentence adjourned after court report complaint

"A SEX offender awaiting sentence for offences against children has had his case put back after his legal representative complained about a court report.

ADJOURNED: KB, who admitted sex offences against a young girl under the age of 13

Judge Simon Newell adjourned sentence on KB for greater detail to be obtained about the man’s previous convictions and the circumstances in which the offences occurred.

Mr Richard Haworth, defending, asked for the case to be adjourned, claiming the pre-sentence report that had been drawn up on B by the probation service “overstepped the mark”.

Mr Haworth said: “There doesn’t appear on my reading and re-reading of the report to be one positive aspect which can be pointed to or identified within the report.

“It is, in effect, 13 pages of negative assessment, so far as Mr B is concerned.

“I submit there is criticism to be levelled at the way the matter has been presented before the court.

“It would be more helpful to the sentencing judge to have a report which is based upon fact and not speculation or fiction.”"

http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/barrow-sex-offender-sentence-adjourned-after-court-report-complaint-1.992081?referrerPath=news/west_cumbria