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Reduced Likelihood of Parole Does Not constitute a Penalty

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Sex Offenders (Discrimination), Self Incrimination, Sentencing, Parole, Sex Offender Treatment. Location: New Hampshire.

The First Circuit Court of Appeals determined that refusal to participate
in sex treatment program merits reduced likelihood of parole and did not
constitute as a penalty.

Wayne Ainsworth a convicted New Hampshire prisoner, sex offender who had
been admitted into the New Hampshire Sex Offender Treatment Program (SOP)
along ...

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