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Predatory sex offenders? Lock 'em up

By "eAdvocate"

3-16-2011 Minnesota: Minnesota?s most predatory sex offenders, repeatedly branded ?the worst of the worst,? would be kept behind bars indefinitely under a bill moving through the Legislature. Members of the House Public Safety and Crime Prevention Committee unanimously approved a bill Tuesday that would keep those offenders in prison instead of diverting them into the state?s costly and controversial program that has civilly committed hundreds of offenders in state treatment centers. Rep. Tony Cornish, R-Good Thunder, the bill?s author, said that asking Minnesotans what the state should do with sex offenders would produce three answers: ?life without parole, castration or the death penalty.? ?I don?t mean to be sensationalistic,? Cornish added, ?but the public expects us to do something drastic...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on March 16, 2011 (boomark / email).