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"Rights of Sex Offenders Must Be Observed"

By Corey Rayburnyung

Tufts Daily, the student newspaper of Tufts University, is running an editorial concerning the declining rights of sex offenders in this nation. From the editorial:Rights balancing is a tricky business, and sometimes it?s just easier to look the other way. That?s what happened when a Boston court sentenced Jeffrey Shields to civil detention last week as a sexually dangerous person. In this case, the court pulled a trick straight from ?Minority Report? and locked up Shields, an ex-felon, to prevent him from committing future offenses....The simple fact is that we do not lock sex offenders up for life, and there?s probably a good reason for that. As hard as it is to come to terms with when staring evil in the eyes, we are a society that fundamentally believes in the idea of just desert...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on February 20, 2009 (boomark / email).