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Donated cars given to Kentucky tornado survivors. Firefighters battle wildfire amid ongoing heat wave in Argentina. Inmate searches are the most popular and most frequently visited pages of all government agency websites. Most searches are peformed by the family members of incarcerated individuals, although many queries come from employers and investigative agencies concerned with connecting children with their parents.
Since the early 's, the Illinois Department of Corrections, one of the largest departments of corrections in the United States and hosting quite possibly the world's largest inmate search database , has maintained records on nearly , inmates and parolees, including links to most wanted fugitives and sex offenders. Most states have already made searchable listings for ex-convicts available publicly on the internet.
In the interests of public safety most states have long maintained public records of current and past prison inmates offline and online since at least the late s. State inmate searches, such as the Kentucky Offender Lookup , can average over three million hits per month.
New York State's department of criminal justice services has offered inmate lookup services on former state offenders since the s, and today offers a current inmate locator tool that includes case information as well as a sex offender registry. For a full list of inmate search tools provided by state departments of corrections, refer to the list on the right. Local courts also already provide public information on case-files such as traffic tickets and child custodies, and the FBI maintains sex offender databases.
Detailed records of all inmates in Wyoming prisons were established in , whereby the public can access a prisoner's name, picture, list of crimes, sentence, projected parole and release dates, and where they are currently being housed. Wyoming had among the most restrictive laws against publishing inmate records and making inmate searches available at the time, and caused a moderate degree of controversy Associated Press Newswires , , "Inmate Disclosure Law goes into effect".
But publishing the names and personal details of ex-offenders in an online searchable database carries with it certain ethical and practical risks.
One argument against online records is that the publication of personal information compromises the rehabilitation of the offender once he or she is out on parole.
While public citizens do have a right to protect themselves and their families from known harm, the loss of individual rights over one's privacy can aggravate some of the very same goals the prison tries to achieve when it incapacitates and reforms offenders in the interests of public safety. The suspect in Kortneigh McCoy's killing, Shanee Liggins, is being held without bail and facing first- and second-degree murder charges. Please enter email address to continue. Please enter valid email address to continue.
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