Nowhere to go People with sex offense convictions struggle to find housing in Illinois.
People convicted of certain sex offenses, like Cetwinski, are required to be on MSR for anywhere from three years to the rest of their lives. But there’s an issue: a permanent address is a requirement for supervised release, and Illinois’s housing banishment laws make it nearly impossible to find housing.
Because of his conviction, Cetwinski cannot legally live within 500 feet of a school, park, or day care. This includes home day cares, which can serve as few as three children and are scattered everywhere, especially in poor and affordable neighborhoods. If a person down the block decides to open their own home day care, legal housing can suddenly become illegal, meaning banishment zones are always in flux. Collectively, whole swaths of the city have been made illegal.
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Has it ever been established that all the restrictions that are we have to obey and adhere to and cruel and unusual punishment? Has it been established that all the inhumane decisions are punishment and if this is so then, how can they add to our sentence. Isn’t that a violation of over sentencing?
Its called free labor and constant income from the government. If the prisons don’t have to release the inmates that have done their time they continue to get paid for housing/feeding them etc… Look for these restrictions to start happening in every city where there are for profit prisons
It’s the same way in Fl plus we don’t qualify for any type of government assistance if living on disability. This is the situation I’m in now and it sucks. Doesn’t help matters that our sheriff wants to run us out of town too. We can’t evacuate during hurricane season either.