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Georgia sex offender law criminalizes homelessness

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Georgia sex offender law criminalizes homelessness USA Today, July 7, 2008 ATLANTA (AP) ? A strict new Georgia law is designed to keep sex offenders away from children by monitoring how close they live to schools, parks and other spots where kids gather ? and threatens them with strict penalties if they fail to register. But what about the offenders who don't have an address? Georgia's Supreme Court on Monday considered whether the law unfairly subjects homeless offenders to a life sentence if they fail register a home address. The case involves William James Santos, a homeless man and convicted sex offender who was kicked out of a Gainesville homeless shelter in July 2006 and was arrested three months later on charges he failed to register with Georgia's sex offender list...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 08, 2008 (boomark / email).