Sex Offenders

Here is one of my big pet peeves.  Sex offenders.   I was just reading an article that an appeals court overruled a judges decision to require a sex offender to subject himself to periodic monitoring to see how he responds to erotic images if he wants out of prison. Why do we keep letting sex offenders out of prison and then give them minimal monitoring.  Sex offenders have a very high rate of recidivism.  How enraged are we as a society when we find out a sex offender has been let out of prison and then killed someone?  Look at the Shasta Groene case.    Shasta and her brother and their family could have been spared the rapes and deaths if their victimizer had been kept in prison.  I realize our prison system is overfull and bursting at the seams but we really have to look at the big picture.  We have a ton of people in prison for offenses like driving without insurance, drugs, etc.  So we let the violent sex offenders out and keep the people in who are driving without insurance?  There has to be a better way.  Now people are going to screw up that is just the way we are.  BUT we need to be stricter about some things.  One violent sex offense and you are out.  Not three strikes, ONE.   If those are the rules and someone is still willing to take that risk..so be it. Technorati Tags : justice, sex, offenders, violence         Powered By Qumana