Slate: Fear in the Heartland
Today, nearly 1 million people are listed on sex offense registries in the U.S., even though many experts consider such registries not only ineffective but ultimately counterproductive. Those previously convicted of sex offenses have relatively low rates of reoffending, and some studies show that the registration and community notification regime “eliminates the possible deterrent effect of having to register for committing a sex crime”—in other words, once you’re registered, you’ve suffered the consequences, and any such deterrent effect is gone. Individuals listed on sex offense registries are also subject to a form of civil death—unable to secure housing or gainful employment, unable to participate in the political process, and unable to find redemption or basic human dignity.
Ironically, children and adolescents—the very people that registries and other tools purport to protect—have been inordinately harmed by these measures: According to the Juvenile Law Center, some 200,000 individuals are listed on sex offense registries for offenses they committed as minors.
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You got a point their Dustin. Human race related. Guess we weren’t born with a silver spoon in our mouths but than again is it an Us against them mentality or who is provoking in a lot of this madness.
One can look at all this registry as a Hatfield and McCoy fued or another overcoming another with a vain promise of a fradulent ruse type of interaction type off colored justice in this American heartland dream. Its time to Stop all of this registry via this internet.
Doing something in public is a bit different than this telemarker type machine justice.
I remember a few cases that made local news of missing girls, one from Omaha and the other Gering, Nebraska back in the 1990s. Can’t recall if those cases were followed by ridiculous laws. When the registry first came out Nebraska would put mugshots on billboards across the state. Welcome to Nebraska Home of Arbor Day, Watch out for the following people.
Speaking of Nebraska I looked up Fairbanks and his tentative release date is in 2050.