Technical supervision violations account for $2.8 BILLION of this total amount, and new offense supervision violations make up $6.5 BILLION. These figures do not account for the substantial local costs of keeping people in jail for supervision violations.
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This demonstrates how the prison machine is fueled. It requires bodies to keep going. Without violations, the prison machine stalls and ceases to function the way a car engine does without fuel and oil. That’s why the sex offender registry has become punitive…to keep the prison machine running.
Our elected oaf-ficials should be reading this, but I don’t think it would matter because there’s too much money and clout to be garnered by the perpetual police state (Amerikkka) we live in.
As I am new to this group, I am not sure of the protocol for trying to submit my comments. What I have to share is not related to this article on costly supervision for violations, but I did not want to go back to older posts that would most likely not be read by the group.
In the Jacksonville Florida Times-Union newspaper, dated June 22, 2019, appears an editorial entitled “Put the Spotlight on Pimps and Johns”. The editorial is in support of a human trafficking bill being put together by the Florida Legislature.
According to the editorial, “…the Florida Legislature is proposing the creation of a statewide “pimps and johns’ registry as part of a wide-ranging bill aimed at fighting human trafficking in our state.”
The editorial also states: “The Soliciting for Prostitution Public Database would list offenders convicted of soliciting or providing sexual services from someone who is being trafficked; the name and photo of the pimp or john would remain on the registry for five years before being removed if the individual had no similar offenses during that time period.”
Also stated in the editorial is that “…these predators and traffickers…should be named and shamed.”
I doubt that few people would disagree with this editorial, but two issues really stand out in all of this for me:
(1) After five years, even as despicable as their crimes would be, if there were no similar offenses during that time period, the names and photos would be taken off the state registry. These pimps have committed far worse acts in their human trafficking than most people on the Sexual Offender Registry have. If they only get five years, then why shouldn’t people on the Sexual Offender Registry only get five years?
(2) The editorial states that the people on this proposed new state registry should be named and shamed. (I am assuming that is also the intent for the Sex Offender Registry–shaming someone for life.) Apparently the shaming from news coverage before their incarceration is not enough. The shaming needs to continue after they have served their time. I have never heard of a sentence being handed down that stated that one of the requirements for probation or the registry is to “shame” a person. Shaming can be collateral damage, but can it be part of the legislative intent?
Sarah, you have hit the nail on the head. To me, the primary purpose of the registry is to do just what you have described so well, shame. There is no other logical reason to have registered citizens’ personal information splattered all over the internet. It should be only accessible to law enforcement. As it is now, it is used to discriminate and disenfranchise. People on the registry are essentially persona non grata [person not appreciated] so we have less rights than illegal immigrants in our own country.
As for the length of time to be on the registry, if Floriduh adhered to SORNA aka AWA [Adam Walsh Act] guidelines, people could be off the registry in as few as 15 years [even as few as 10 years with a clean record]. Since there is no federal level equivalent for the “Pimps and Johns” registry, Floriduh is free to do whatever it wants to with it. But as you have stated, this exposes the duplicity of the legislature wanting to punish “sex offenders” more than PnJs.
Many states do not exceed SORNA guidelines, but since Floriduh has no personal income tax, they gouge their citizens in every other way. This is no more evident than in the “justice” arena. Floriduh’s legal machine is almost entirely funded from penalizing its citizens, thus it is a whore for any federal “grant” dollars it can get. So by exceeding SORNA guidelines, it is fully compliant thus getting the grants.
JZ is absolutely correct about Florida keeping its registry as large as possible for no other reason than to solicit larger grants. Funny how 40,000 of the state’s 70,000+ registrants are either dead, incarcerated, or have left the state. I would think the fact that none of them update their registration every year and probably don’t have warrants on them should push them into non-compliant territory and affect such grants. Perhaps we ought to insist on SORNA audits of how their grants dollars are spent…
However, I strongly disagree that an LE only registry is acceptable. There’s nothing on the registry not already available at NCIC and state counterparts. It has never played even the smallest role in the investigation of any crime other than registry offenses. In the few instances of registrants committing other crimes (sexual or otherwise), registry status is never known until after identification or arrest. DAs primarily use it to substitute for evidence of new crime or to seek sentence enhancement as though an existing criminal record doesn’t accomplish that.
I defy anyone to find one single exception. And even if there is one, odds are the same information is available elsewhere, eliminating the supposed need to trample the constitutional rights of all other registrants.
I realize the article was about supervision violations, but I got a laugh out of this sentence – “Probation and parole are designed to lower prison populations and help people succeed in the community. ” How is that possible, especially for those put on the registry who either lose their jobs or can’t find decent employment or for many, a place to live, not to mention the public shaming that goes with it?
I was surprised to see FL was on the low end of most of those graphs. Shocking.
Agree with all assertions in this article, however, those who make a living (some make a very handsome living) will continue to convince the public that these expenditures are necessary for their protection.
Yeah they really need to be supervised might smoke pot or do volunteer work
Willing to bet that the costs are understated. Betting that Georgia at least didn’t report the number of inmates in their probation detention centers, transition centers, or halfway houses because they don’t consider them prisons, per se. Pretty sure it would account for well more than the 23% of Georgia’s prison population if they did.
While handy to know, the link didn’t specify how much of the populations reported were registrants or, in turn, how many were incarcerated strictly for registry violations. The number may not be high, but probably significant.