Many sex offenders in Missouri are finding themselves shackled for life to the state’s criminal justice system, even though some pleaded guilty or were convicted before a law tethering them to GPS monitoring ankle bracelets existed. The law took effect Jan. 1 but is being applied retroactively to crimes committed on or after Aug. 28, 2006.Full Article
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This can’t continue..Lifetime parole-probation, lifetime shackles, lifetime reporting and contact with police, lifetime restrictions of all sorts, castration, civil commitment, travel bans, no right to bear arms to protect ourselves and our families, it’s got to end..help me end it..
https://www.gofundme.com/constrights
Maybe I can start a class action or just get help with my own case that will set precedents for others.feel free to share or ignore it but something has to change…
“The law should not treat sex offenders lightly, particularly since scientific data suggests many are likely to offend again.”
The editorial says this, but their reference link counters that statement. Only if one includes both sex- and non-sex-related re-offense do the numbers in their citation become anything. That all said, it’s good to see a major paper such as the Post-Dispatch putting out an op-ed like this.
I’d add a comment to their op-ed, but since I’m not on FB (thanks, but I like my privacy Mr. Zuckerberg), I cannot. One more reason Packingham needs to be found unconstitutional: one cannot even provide commentary to online free-press items.
–AJ
I believe the Sex offender Registry has contributed greatly to the US mass incarceration worse than the war on drugs epidemic.
Yes, and we have the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws to thank partly for that . They increased the size and presence of federal control agencies, pushed through mandatory sentencing laws and snuck in no-knock warrants ( compliance checks). Except for criminal asset seizure/ forfeiture , they are using the same blueprint. If they could have figured out a way to justify confiscating someone’s whole house because they suspected a computer inside was used in committing a sex crime they would have.
I see the registry as a shift away from them having to endure the costs of incarceration ( food, medical, staff etc) by forcing people to imprison themselves psychologically and on so many different levels. Like the unicorn in captivity, we are.