Re: A Quaint Relic From Our Archives on Computer

When you are no longer being punished, your full rights as a citizen

> should be returned to you, but that would, in turn, make mock of the > corrections industry, which the governments really support. PAT]

What about registered sex offenders?

[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Well, what about them? They have one of the longest 'supervision' periods of all -- I think, ten years in total, after their conviction, according to the uniform rules the federal government seems to enforce on all the states -- but at some point their punishment is, or should be complete; zip, nada, done, over, finished. There are a few people who claim that 'sex offenders are never rehabilitated or cured'; but if in ten or eleven years or however long their incarceration lasted _plus_ their registration period there have been no subsequent offenses, then why hang on to them, clutching them for dear life as the corrections industry is prone to do?

Trouble is, sometime during that decade there will be some other heinous offender somewhere, and all the citizens will go on a rampage for 'justice' and demand the laws be changed, post-facto for _all_ offenders. Forget the double-jeopardy implications, _this is just too important_ claim the citizens. The sex-offender registration lists are too cluttered up, and were started, theoretically, to 'warn the neighbors' about offenders living in their midst. And the way police always pounce at the opportunity to get still more people listed (except of course themselves or their buddies in blue) the lists will only get longer and more cluttered. And some states have dropped the word-phrase 'sex' or 'sexual' from the name and started referring to the 'Registered Offenders List'. That's because in some places they now include drug (buying, selling, possessing) as a registerable offense. So, what were you saying about 'Registered Sex Offenders'? PAT]

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