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New Article at Stateline

By Corey Rayburnyung

Stateline has done a fantastic job covering sex offender law issues in the past. Here is the latest article by John Gramlich concerning crackdowns on sex offenders:From California to North Carolina, a flood of litigation has accompanied an expansion in the scope and severity of penalties imposed by local, state and federal lawmakers on those who commit sex crimes. Penalties for molesters and other sex criminals have toughened considerably in recent years and now include execution in at least five states, chemical castration in eight states and the use of technology to monitor offenders? every move in more than half the states. In some instances, punitive measures are limited only by lawmakers? imaginations. In Louisiana, for example, a proposal being debated this legislative session would forbid offenders from wearing masks on Halloween or Mardi Gras...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on April 18, 2008 (boomark / email).