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July 21, 2005
State moving sex offenders to suburbs
The article I choose was from KSTP.com poasted 7/18/2005
The article is about lawmakers giving the Department of Corrections $1 million to help find sex offenders housing in suburbs and smaller towns. Currently 77 of the 108 level-three sex offenders in Minnesota live in the Twin Cities metro area. In south Minneapolis 5 live within walking distance of a school. At this time the state does not want to move the people from where they are currently living, however, they want to help newly released sex offenders find housing in the suburbs.
My argument to this is that many suburbs and especially small towns do not have their own police departments, and therefore may not have the resources need to track these people. Debbie asked what should be done with these people. I do not have an answer to that. Level three offenders are those deemed most likely to reoffend. Minnesota should do as other states are doing and give them longer sentences.
From the article you can link to the state website to see if there is a level three offender living in your area.
Comments
Why are the government and the Department of Corrections responsible to "help" these people find a home anywhere? That proposed million could buy a good sized building with lots of small rooms and one communal bathroom where all these people can live together and assault each other. One central location for all of them. Let them out 9 hours out of each day to go to work and pay rent for their room. Maybe that way we can save a few bucks on keeping track of them.
Posted by: Patti at July 22, 2005 8:05 PM