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"Sex Offender Begs For More Jail Time"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this new piece from ABC News that discusses sex offender residency restrictions and other challenges that sex offenders now face as they seek a return to society.  Here is how the article starts: Florida sex offender Raphael Marquez was just released from an eight-year prison term, but now he's begging the judge to send him back. Marquez is one of many sex offenders who have run afoul of a patchwork of laws designed to protect the public from sexual predators.  These laws require offenders to register with the communities in which they live and stay away from schools and playgrounds, leaving some who have served their time and are trying to comply with the law homeless. Marquez was released June 20, but the only legal and affordable option he could find was a rat-infested overpass in Broward County next to a park filled with 100 other sex offenders...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 15, 2009 (boomark / email).