Sex Offender Colonies: Good or Bad?

Does it bother you that the media suggests a “sex offender colony” is a good solution for housing registered citizens?

Nobody discounts the incredible work that communities like Matthew 25 Ministries and the Villages, among others, do for registered citizens. After all, because of the draconian residency restrictions, many have nowhere to go.

That said; is colonizing an unwelcome class of citizens in a far-off community far away from most civilization the right solution to correct an ineffective scheme of municipal ordinances?

Is separation from one’s family and exile FOR LIFE an appropriate blanket punishment for anyone with this label?

Doesn’t access to family support, proximity to social services, housing stability and employment foster successful reentry and doesn’t this “solution” undermine all those elements?

We are grateful for the existence of Matthew 25 and their community in Pahokee. We certainly wish that a similar community were available (or could even exist given the dense population) in Miami, so that 220 people would not be living homeless by the railroad tracks without toilets and without basic sanitation. But we are incredibly angry about the senseless, politically motivated, completely ineffective, empirically proven to be counter-productive and inhumane residency restrictions that necessitate them.