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CRUEL AND UNUSUAL: HOUSE ARREST WITHOUT A HOUSE

By JAABLOG

 Raphael Marquez would rather live in the Broward County Jail than under a bridgeToday's travesty comes in the form of one Raphael Marquez, courtesy of the Florida Legislature.Mr. Marquez was released from Florida State Prison on June 23rd, after serving roughly seven years on a sex offense.  His sentence also includes two years of house arrest with a GPS monitor, and a decade or two of probation.  Click here for his Department of Corrections profile.If you follow the news you know the problems sex offenders face finding places to live.  There are so many restrictions, and so few shelters that take sex offenders, that they often end up living on the streets.  That's what happened to Mr. Marquez, whose family lives in New York...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on June 30, 2009 (boomark / email).