Citizens for Criminal Justice Reform – New Hampshire

A seven-member committee of conference reached loggerheads today on a House bill to block towns from limiting where convicted sex offenders can live. Three senators said HB 442 was simply too controversial to pass, and the House should study the issue instead. Reps said they’ve studied the problem for years, the facts are well documented, and these local codes are ineffective, unconstitutional and even dangerous.

Sex offender laws sail through legislatures on hysteria. Nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford was kidnapped from her Florida home in February, 2005, then raped and buried alive. Barely a month later sympathizers filed the draconian 82-page Jessica Lunsford Act in her honor.

Foster's Daily Democrat, by Chris Dornin, April 15, 2013 -

Janice Bellucci of Reform Sex Offender Laws believes offenders should go to prison. But after they get out, she wants them to have a chance to lead stable lives.