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GA - After Prison, Few Places for Sex Offenders to Live

View the article here 02/19/2009 By STEPHANIE CHEN Georgia's Rules That Keep Some Convicted Felons Far From Children Create Challenges for Compliance, Enforcement CEDARTOWN - After two years of fitful searching, _____ and his family finally found a modest three-bedroom house in rural Georgia. The bedrooms are cramped, the kitchen plumbing leaky. There isn't a neighbor in sight. But the lonely old house is a last refuge. Mr. _____ is one of nearly 16,000 sex offenders convicted in Georgia who, under state law, can't live or work within 1,000 feet of a church, school, day-care center, skating rink, park, swimming pool or any other place where children gather. Failing to register an address could mean 30 extra years in prison for a convicted sex offender...continue to full post

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