criminal justice system – Melinda Tankard Reist

The true costs of sexual assault: two survivors speak

This week marked the International Day For the Elimination of Violence Against Women. If any voices should be heard at this time, it is those of survivors. Here are two, addressing the physical, mental, emotional, and financial costs of the harm done to them by male abusers. Sexual assault has robbed me of my confidence […]

All these women might still be alive if their killers had not been paroled

Parole board failures a matter of life and death When murderer John Coombes was convicted for a second murder, what did the Adult Parole Board do? Let him out of prison in 2007 to murder his friend, foster mother Raechel Betts, and throw her body parts into the sea. When violent offender William Watkins was […]

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The true costs of sexual assault: two survivors speak

All these women might still be alive if their killers had not been paroled