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HamiltonHabs32 Donating Member (465 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:45 AM
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Paroled Florida Sex Offenders forced to live under bridge
 
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I am sure there will always be a debate about how communities should deal with sex offenders, here I won’t offer any suggestions on that front. What I will offer in this post is the incorrect for communities to deal with sex offenders.

I believe Miami Florida has offered a real time example of exactly how an Idiocratic state would deal with sex offenders.

http://trueslant.com/jeffhoard/2009/08/17/the-wrong-way-to-handle-sex-offenders/
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:55 AM
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 05:28 AM
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2. The BBC article:
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FarPoint Donating Member (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 06:52 AM
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3. I see no problem
as it is the natural habitat for a Troll to live under bridges.
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MrsBrady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 08:51 AM
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9. so it's ok with you that they are so close to a park where there are kids?
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Chemisse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 07:23 AM
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4. I generally believe that once a person does his or her time
For a crime, they should be allowed to live the rest of their lives in as normal a way possible.

Unfortunately, studies have shown that sexual predators tend re offend after release. So what do you do with them? Perhaps life sentences should be given to the worst of them: those who violently rape children. Otherwise, they should be able to live in the communities with local police supervision.

(And by sexual predators I don't mean the 20 year old who had sex with a 16 year old, or the guy caught peeing in public, or the middle aged guy who had kiddie porn on his computer. I mean the ones who actually attack and rape people and/or molest children.)
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trapper914 Donating Member (796 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 07:29 AM
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5. Agreed
nt
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localroger Donating Member (663 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 07:29 AM
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6. Then you are talking about a very tiny minority
...of the people who make it onto these stupid registries. Yeah, they're set up for the people who axe murder 8 year olds but when you got a hammer every problem looks like a nail and next thing you know every prostitute, john, 18 year old who gave a 16 year old a blowjob, and guy who took a leak against a sign post are on it too.

These registries are evil and an affront to the rule of law. If it's the intent of the court to make you serve a life sentence they should man up and lock the motherfuckers up and pay their room and board. If they're safe enough to let loose at all, then they should be allowed to make an attempt at having a normal life. I think the whole Scarlet A thing went out with Nathanial Hawthorne.
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Chemisse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 07:52 AM
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7. Very well said! Scarlet A is right
It's really hard to address this though because everyone hates a pervert. Once they are on that list, there is no reasoning with people about it. They must be sickos or they would not be on the list!
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soryang Donating Member (642 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 08:48 AM
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8. Florida is one of three states that doens't provide any therapy
Edited on Mon Aug-17-09 08:54 AM by soryang
...or treatment of any kind to sex offenders in prison. So uber restrictive limits on residence and activity are instituted at the state and local level. Most offenders released from prison are not on parole but conditional release. Parole was phased out quite a few years ago. Studies show recidivism is much lower for treated inmates. Also some studies show that recidivism for sex offenses is less than that for other felony inmates. In any case, those classified as sexual predators are subject to indefinite civil commitment. So the Florida Representative interviewed is raising a straw man. Those sexual predators viewed as a continuing threat to society are never intentionally released from confinement under the Jimmy Rice laws. Those sexual offenders awaiting their classification for civil commitment status before so called "release into society" (Jimmy Rice hearings) are held in detainment without due process of law for two and a half years on average before the penurious Republican state gets around to giving them a hearing for classification. Non sexual predators under conditional release or probation for sex offenders are not permitted within thousand yards of a playground, so I don't know what the narrator is talking about. Only a former offender under no restraint on liberty at all, could go near a playground without the risk of return to prison with a mandatory sentence of at least 36 months.
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sunnybrook Donating Member (986 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 10:04 AM
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10. Please do not minimize child pornography
As if it is a victimless crime
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