US Attorney General suggests house arrest alternative to prison… except for sex offenders.
The United States Attorney General, William Barr, on March 26th sent a memo to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), encouraging the BOP to explore the option of sending inmates home on home confinement rather than keeping them incarcerated in facilities where they have greater exposure to Coronavirus.
The memo contains a list of 6 bulleted items for the BOP to consider when weighing whether to keep an inmate housed in prison, vs sending them home. The last bullet says, “Some offenses, such as sex offenses, will render an inmate ineligible for home detention.”
We need to take action to correct the government’s perception on the risk and recidivism rates of people deemed “sex offenders”. It is entirely irrational for this class of person to be precluded from MOST programs because of an inaccurate perceived risk to public safety.
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RSO’S are the COVID-19 of crimes
What is odd is, no one is concerned about people with a past sex offense who made the cut off to not have to register. We forget, there are people who do no have to register. They do not seem to be committing any more or any less new crimes than us.
It has been 30 years since the incident that got me arrested. I never had so much as a traffic ticket before or since. But yet, that one mark on my record, that one moment of time is supposed to define who I am forever?
One place I lived for 13 years and the neighbor did not know about me but was friends with me. She adored me. Then one day all those years later she found out and boy I might as well have just been satan in disguise as far as she was concerned. I suddenly become a different person.
She accused me of lying. Not sure how not telling her my business is lying. I thought she was going to make trouble for me but instead, she let her insecurities affect her so much that, two days later she put her home up for sale. MY GOD what is wrong with people. 13 year living next to her without and incident and then she finds out my “Secret” and she moves? I kind of hoped she moved into a neighborhood with 30 registered people, she probably would have ended up in a mental hospital.
Cherokee Jack, it may be that she was already planning to move and in consulting with a realtor, she discovered your status. It’s a shame she let that one piece of information outweigh the 13 years of neighborly friendship. I’m so sorry!
Yeah what is also weird is, she did prison time for being in possession of prescription pain killers that she did not have prescriptions for. I do not mean one or two pills but boxes and boxes of bottles.
I would have never known nor cared either way but she shared that with me. I told her at the time, it is not what you did in the past, but what you are doing now that matters.
Apparently she did not apply that same mantra to me. Most of the time I talked to her she was drunk out of her mind. I felt sorry for her, she appeared to be 50% underweight and was really concerned about her.
Actually RSO are considered lower then Cannibals.
Everybody who works in the legal system, in any government position, and everybody who has ever dealt with legal system should listen to this podcast:
https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/
Anybody who has ever dealt with corrupt people working in our legal system will find some of these stories to be very familiar, especially the episodes on false confessions. States that have private prisons tend to have a lot of corruption like this in the legal system because it’s driven by money.
AMEN!!!
AG Barr, et al., knows the recidivism facts as well as anyone. Like most politicians and bureaucrats, he is spineless and simply has no incentive to stick his neck out for registrants. Imagine the uproar if a single released SO were to commit another sex crime. The same is not true of any other genre of crime, with the possible exception of murder. It is much less risky to simply say “no” independent of facts.
If nothing else, quote this please:
https://www.womenagainstregistry.org/Resources/pdf/rsorp94.pdf
“Recidivism of Sex Offenders Released from Prison in 1994”, 2003 United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics – A Study of 9,691 sex offenders released from prisons in 15 states in 1994 and followed for 3 years.
Sex Crime Re-arrest Rate: 5.3%
Sex Crime Re-conviction Rate: 3.5%
This is MUCH lower than all other crime types (except murderers).
That is so true.
He is an idiot and no different than the others who use those they label as “sex offenders” as pawns.
The USA’s untouchables will continue to be the whipping boys for law enforcement and politicians with no regard that they/we are actually human beings with names, families, and we are most certainly NOT ALL ALIKE!
In the days of being so sensitive to groups such as transsexuals which just like sex offenders are an artificially created group YET they have protection as a protected class! How unfair!
We need to take action to correct the government’s perception on the risk and recidivism rates of people deemed “sex offenders”.
Trust that they already know this information. The real problem is that they’ve already spent years brainwashing the public into thinking the worst about everyone with a sexual offense. Even if it’s someone who did teenage sexting and is still carrying the scarlet letter for it.
The PUBLIC would be outraged because they’ve been made to believe every sex offense is the equivalent of what happened to Megan Kanka. I’m sorry to have to say this but it’s true; We will NEVER get the government agencies to stop shitting on people with sex offenses. I’m sad to say that everything FAC and NARSOL are doing is in vain. It’s not about educating the government when they are the ones who did the recidivism studies. It’s the general public who bought into the lies all these years. And now any official who dares to include sex offenders in anything will be committing political suicide. And they ain’t gonna let themselves do that.