Almost all sex offenders in Missouri are on a state registry for a lifetime, whether they made a one-time mistake, or made repeated or extreme offenses.
Rep. Kurt Bahr, R-St. Charles, wants to make it possible for certain people to petition to remove their name from the list and for the registry to be more transparent for the public. Full Article
“Bahr said with the tiered system and clarification of sexual offenses in the bill, every sex offender will not be punished the same way.”
Is anyone else dumbfounded with the sheer ignorance of this statement?
it doesn’t MATTER the charge or what tier you fall under… the label – in and of itself – is an untenable, life destroying sad reality and hard truth
This caught my eye:
“The DOC cost of incarceration is $17.003 per day or an annual cost of $6,206 per offender. ” (Bill Fiscal Note, p. 7 – https://house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills181/fiscal/fispdf/4083-03P.UPD.pdf)
I read very recently that in California the cost of incarceration per inmate is now $80,000 per year. Compared to $6,206 in Missouri. Wow.
Remind me to never get thrown in a Missouri prison. Or set foot in the Show Me State, for that matter.
Wait – “will not be PUNISHED the same way?” Here I always thought it wasn’t punishment!!!!!
When you consider how terrible a stay in California’s prisons is, I suspect that that $80K per inmate/year is not reflected in the conditions of confinement but rather in the bloated and overpaid bureaucracy that maintains it. Think of it this way: California gets to spend more money towards the goal of making prisoners especially miserable.
“Bahr said with the tiered system and clarification of sexual offenses in the bill, every sex offender will not be punished the same way.” PUNISHED, okay, lawyers put this in you evidence folder.
Some get to petition off the registry for flashing, more get prison for life for statutory rape. Is this a good trade off? Doesn’t seem like it to me. Increase mass incarceration to reduce the severity of a registration system that protects no one. There is some sort of given equation here that overall punisjment must not be reduced, but reductions in one area require increases in another. This is the problem from the holistic perspective.These are our faustian choices today.
Actually that is probably not the correct figure.
https://www.vera.org/publications/price-of-prisons-2015-state-spending-trends/price-of-prisons-2015-state-spending-trends/price-of-prisons-2015-state-spending-trends-prison-spending
Also note the primary driver of prison spending — employment.
What tier would the Gov of MO be on?