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Re: where should registered sex offenders live?
a Large Oceanic Center to Keep Enemy Detention and Undesirable Prisoner Facility
aka L.O.C.K.E.D. UP.
Please to this site and see "Criminal Justice" under "Vision for America." YWIA
http://www.votegeorgecooper.com/
According to George, the only sex offenders who qualify to be LOCKED UP are child molesters. What about the rest of them?
I don't think George would mind if we threw a few more people on the island.
My serious answer is that I don't know.
Part of me thinks they should be able to live wherever within the confines of laws such as Megan's Law and whatever their parole etc may dictate (not near a school etc.) But other than that - wherever they want. By segregating them and making it hard for them to find shelter, jobs etc they have little chance of changing/not committing the same offenses again/etc. But in general we have a real problem in this country with how we treat ex-convicts - does anyone want a murderer living next door to them? - so I see SOs as part of that bigger problem.
That said - the emotional part of me thinks "not near me," which is again part of the problem and I know that, but the thought of raising kids next to someone convicted of molestation or rape makes me extremely nervous.
where would the group homes be located?
You think a group home w/ 10 sex offenders would be an easier sell than one sex offender?
I see your point here but my issue would be constitutional - I think we would have problems confining someone who has "served their time" to a closely monitored group home if there is no mental health diagnosis.
In a secret volcano lair. Honestly I don't know. I didn't say it would be an easier sell, but if they are being monitored obviously there is more of security factor vs. the system now where all they have to do is report their address every time they move. Sex offenders get me skeeved out and riled up; I don't like thinking about them.
I think I would agree with this, but only if the sex offender registry was more specific.
Child molestors and violent rapists, yes, put them on the list.
Abused 10 year old touches his 8 year old neighbor girl? This needs new guardians, therapy, and who knows what else, STAT, but I don't think he needs to be on a list for the rest of his life as long as he gets said therapy and new guardians.
18 year old high school senior has sex with high school freshman - he needs to get slapped upside the head HARD, but he should be able to live whereever he wants.
drunk college frat boy date has sex with drunk girl who he thought was ok with it, but turns out she wasn't and was just too out of it to say so? that's still rape, and I'm down with him being prosecuted for it because if you can't tell what's going on you can't consent dumbass...but I'm not ok with him being on a registry for the rest of his life. that's just stupid criminal, not subhuman criminal.
Drunk dude pees in an alley in a state where that'll get you on the offender list - yeah, that guy REALLY shouldn't be restricted in where he lives.
The examples I gave cover a HUGE range of "wrongness" but I think they are a pretty good sampling of the kinds of things that can land you on the registry, but I don't think should include restrictions on where you live.
the problem is...you take any of those examples and twist the details a bit, and you might end up with somethign that I think should land you on the registry. (peeing, on purpose, in front of a bunch of little kids for example. Roofies instead of mutual drunkeness. Etc) It's a really really complicated issue.
My Goodness...another food blog. Featuring: Macarons from a old post with a photo taken by my mom for a break from my crappy food photos!