Should Sex offenders be sleeping under a bridge?

Question

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sex offender cannot live 1,500 feet from school or playground which evicts most of the them from thier homes who end up homeless and under bridges. Some say they wish to commit more crimes just to get back into Jail because at least the have shelter, food and clothing. What do you think?

Answer 1

I think the punishment should end after you finish your jail sentence, just like for any other crime.

Answer 2

No they should not be sleeping under a bridge. Neither should they be sleeping with children. They should not even be sleeping close to children. They should sleep in a jail cell for the rest of their lives. If they are a particularly heinous sex offender, they should be sleeping in the ground.

Unfortunately, our liberalistic judicial system thinks that we should "rehabilitate" these scumbags and return them to society, even though some sex offenders tell them that they will commit the same crimes if they are returned. Somehow these people are magically changed when they are released back into society and we have the audacity to be surprised when they molest other children, and think that they must have done this because we did not want them to live next to us, and they just wanted a place to live, even if they had to go back to jail.

Answer 3

Doesn't sound very American. The moment we start dehumanizing these people(and thats exactly what society is doing), the less human we ourselves become. The Justice Dept states that only about 5% of these guys reoffend, unlike the false facts our politicians use to scare us, which are exagerated greatly. Before they go about punishing sex offenders over and over again, they need to be careful who they CALL a sex offender because its a broad range of people wearing the label.

Megan's law started out to "Protect the public", but now its being used to make these guy's lives just as hard as they can make them short of death, much like a hate crime against them. Truth is, most of these guys are no longer a risk, not until you tell them where to live, where to work and put thier name up on the scarlette letter called the Registry. Alot of these guys have families and have turned over a new leaf, though many refuse to see that.

Once someone does thier time, it should be over with with the exception of some of the more serious offenders who clearly can't be cured or treated, they should be committed. What we are doing now is punishing them for a crime that they MIGHT commit, much like that movie 'Minority Report'. Today it's sex offenders, tomorrow it's probably you and me. I'm all for protecting children, but what are we teaching them about the constitution. None of this sounds very American to me, between this and other BS laws, not to mention the Patriot Act.....I can see everything this nation was founded on is slipping out from under our feet. We can't protect our children by justifying HATE, i'm confident we can protect both the children and the constitution if people would just stop using hate as thier only weapon. We can start with education, for potential offenders, parents and children. These laws are going too far and at this rate, there wont be much of an America left to defend. I'm ashamed of what we have become.

Answer 4

You know what, I think that's pretty ridiculous...even perverts have rights. All that's really needed is to make sure people in the community know who is who. Making someone live a certain distance from a school will not stop them from going after children, I'd think.

Either let them live where they will or give them life sentences in jail. If it's true that once a molester, always a molester, why let them back out on the street?

Answer 5

Sounds like BS there are plenty of housing 1500 feet from schools or playgrounds, and committing a crime isnt hard so if they wanted to do it then they could.

Answer 6

I say that the government puts these sex offenders in houses sort of like jail, where they can have their own little hut with their own belongings and food and stuff, but like a jail as to where they can't get out anyhow. That way, they won't have to commit crimes or anything just to get into jail.

Answer 7

Oh how sad! Sex offenders against children are being inconvenienced. (the preceding comments were liberally doused with sarcasm)

There are places you can find that are 1500 feet away from a school or park, they aren't that difficult to find. If you stand on the roof of my house you can see the neighbourhood school, but we are well outside the 1500 foot mark.

Answer 8

i think of it existence like that those on the intercourse offenders sign in for existence, could be waiting to stick to after a protracted era (are they speaking 15 years?) without re-offending, to be faraway from the sign in. even with the incontrovertible fact that, i'd place the burden of evidence firmly on the criminal to coach that he / she no longer posed a risk to the typical public. i won't see any situation the place it could be suitable to get rid of from the sign in, every person convicted of a serious sexual offence against a little one. submit to in techniques, regardless of if somebody convicted of such an offence does come off the sign in, their conviction would nonetheless prepare on a CRB, and that they does not be allowed to artwork with babies or susceptible adults. permitting offenders to allure, isn't a similar element as easily granting such appeals. i'd envisage it being a very uncommon occurence.

Answer 9

i think that if you look at it carefully, you'll find that the category 'sex offender' is a pretty broad category.

some people labeled this way are guilty of nothing more than consensual sex in a car, or urinating against a wall behind a building.

if all sex offenders are to be treated this way, then it is grossly unjust.

some, however, need to be watched very carefully indeed...

Answer 10

I have zero sympathy for sex offenders. This should serve as a deterrent -- molest a kid or rape someone and you could end up homeless under a bridge.

What do they expect? A half-way house for perverts?

These people are lucky they made it of prison alive.

Answer 11

I'm wondering how practical it would be to bring back "banishment". Drop them on an otherwise unused island in the Aleutians, and leave it at that. If they escape and are found in the US again, they're taken back.