#29: Exiled Part 1 -- A Year In New York’s Infamous ‘Sex Offender Motel'

Summary: <p>Sex offenders are the most reviled and abused criminals in prison. But eventually, most of them will get out. So, what happens next?</p> <p> This is part one of a two-part documentary series we produced in partnership with the <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/radio/docproject/exiled-in-the-u-s-studying-sex-offenders-at-the-boardwalk-motel-1.3844139">CBC Doc Project</a> and the <a href="http://humanrights.washington.edu">University of Washington Center For Human Rights.</a> On this episode, you’ll hear the story of <a href="https://www.kent.edu/sociology/profile/christopher-dum">Chris Dum</a>, a doctoral student who rented a room in the The Boardwalk — upstate New York’s infamous ‘Sex Offender Motel.’</p> <p>A quick note, Chris’ university ethics board made him change all the names in this research project, because the work is with a very vulnerable population. He used fake names for the motel, the people in the motel, and the city. We agreed to maintain this anonymity in order to tell this story.</p> <p>Plus, the back half of this episode includes an interview with the University of Washington’s <a href="https://soc.washington.edu/people/katherine-beckett">Katherine Beckett</a>. We discuss how criminal justice policy and research has changed since the 1980s, and what a Trump presidency will mean for reform efforts.</p>