The Watchmen

Violator registry is growing as tech-savvy predators put a greater burden on officers
By Jerry Markon
Washington Post
Monday, November 23, 2009

The pursuit of Lee Shelton began the moment the convicted sex offender was released from prison.

It ended months later with a U.S. Marshals Service helicopter hovering near a D.C. junior high school as Shelton kissed

The law is made up of rules and standards.

Here is an example of a rule, established by the Supreme Court in

In a recent 79-page decision, a Manhattan judge could well have stopped after the first four sentences of his concluding paragraph and still conveyed his main point: that Fernando Bermudez was no longer guilty of murder.

Instead, the judge, Justice John Cataldo of State Supreme Court in Manhattan, tacked on a fifth sentence that ended with t

By JOHN ELIGON

A Manhattan judge ruled on Thursday that a man who had spent 18 years in prison for murder was innocent of

By Matthew Spolar and James Osborne
The Philadelphia Inquirer

A New Jersey company, watching closely as officials consider closing the Camden County jail and privatizing corrections services, has filed an application to build a facility in central Camden.
County spokeswoman Joyce Gabriel said she wa