Wisconsin Came Close To Changing A Rule That Often Leaves People On Sex Offense Registries Homeless
From The Appeal:
In May 2016, a local Fox station in Wisconsin reported a remarkable story. That March, a man who had served 11 years on second-degree child sexual assault had been released from prison. The city of Waukesha had a rule forbidding those convicted of a sex crime against someone under age 18 from living within 1,500 feet of schools, parks, and other places where children congregate. His mother and brothers all lived inside those banned zones, so he couldn’t live with them.
With nowhere to go and homeless shelters refusing help, the day after his release he intentionally stood next to a school to get rearrested. That landed him back in prison for two years. “I just couldn’t go on with no place to go,”
The latest available research shows that 32 states and many municipalities, including dozens in Wisconsin, have rules like Waukesha’s that make big swaths of housing off limits to people with sex crime records. Those policies might sound like common sense, but a 2017 report from the U.S. Department of Justice concluded that there’s “no empirical support for the effectiveness of residence restrictions.”
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Two Years prison time for standing in front of a school. On the flip side, a while back I saw a guy who robbed and beat an old lady and got probation. Our great justice system making us all proud to be Americans once again.
Of course there’s no evidence they are effective, all they are are hardship laws designed to set up sex offenders to fail, this way law enforcement has a far better chance of locking them back up. They are literally biased laws set in place by bigot people.
Excellent!
I encourage everyone to copy this entire web page (and other similar pieces of evidence) to a local file, keeping the web address at the top of the page.
When you store it locally, title it so that you can easily reference it. Like, for instance, “smart gov say resid restrict don’t work”.
These articles are key pieces of evidence for legal challenges, literature production and rhetorical reference.
To add, these pieces also make great shares. I’ve found myself in a few um, discussions, where a simple link like this helps tremendously in showing more to the picture than what mainstream focuses on.
Again, ty for the post FAC.
I agree. This journalist, Steven Yoder, has authored some other good articles for The Appeal.