Can Sex Offenders be Held After Serving Criminal Sentences?

[dalthauser]

Wow, what you you all think of this?
....especially our Lawyer-To-Be out there.... you know who you are.... :-)

Can sex offenders be held after serving criminal sentences?

I am more than all for keeping the streets safe (and anyone who sexually abuses a child should be burned at the stake), but this sure sounds un-constitutional to me.

Why not use a different approach -

1.) Sentence them immediately to life in prison.

2.)  Just execute them to begin with if the crime is that heinous

3.)  Begin their prison sentence with a "program" to help them.

Comments

[joebanks.livejournal.com]

It's an unusual situation, unlike a murderer or someone who beats someone, there is no guarantee those people will murder again, they may be more likely, but for most, it's not a compulsion. I'd lean toward option 1. because with the death penalty, we've seen too many innocent people convicted. Option 3 would last until someone had to cut a budget.

Thing is with states now prosecuting teenagers for having pictures of other teenagers, as sex offenders, there has to be a line there; you can't toss everyone in jail; maybe just violent offenders.

Why do we have so many screw-ups who ruin evrything!