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State sex-offender registration and notification programs are designed, in general, to include information about offenders who have been convicted of a "criminal offense against a victim who is a minor" or a "sexually violent offense," as specified in the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act ("the Wetterling Act") [1] – more specifically ...
Per the Offender Population Statistical Report, provided by the Indiana Department of Correction Division of Data Science and Analytics, there were 22,758 adult male offenders (including 724 county jail “back-ups” and 23 in contracted beds) on January 1, 2025. This population is 13% below the operational bed capacity.
In 1947, California became the first state in the United States to have a sex offender registration program. [11] C. Don Field was prompted by the Black Dahlia murder case to introduce a bill calling for the formation of a sex offender registry; California became the first U.S. state to make this mandatory. [12]
An Indiana man is accused of molesting two children, ages 13 and 8, and violating his lifetime parole. Michael Forshey, 51, is a registered sex offender not permitted to interact with children ...
The constitutionality of sex offender registries in the United States has been challenged on a number of state and federal constitutional grounds. While the Supreme Court of the United States has twice upheld sex offender registration laws, in 2015 it vacated a requirement that an offender submit to lifetime ankle-bracelet monitoring, finding it was a Fourth Amendment search that was later ...
A long list of studies using decades' worth of data have found no significant evidence that laws requiring public identification of sex offenders do anything to prevent sex crimes. Experts say sex ...
By RYAN GORMAN An Indiana man has confessed to killing seven women, and police believe there may be more victims. Darren Vann, a 43-year-old convicted sex offender from Gary, has already led ...
In the late 2000s, a study showed that Indiana sex offenders have recidivism of about 1.03% after 3 years. [82] Studies consistently show sex offender recidivism rates of 1–4% after 3 years, recidivism is usually at about 5–10% after a long follow up (such as a 10–25 year follow up).