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FL:Woman joins sex-offender group living under Julia Tuttle Causeway

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Mar. 23, 2009 Woman joins sex-offender group living under Julia Tuttle Causeway By FRED GRIMM. Miami Herald It's as if Voncel Johnson has been thrust into a bizarre social experiment. Forcing so many men to live like post-apocalyptic trolls beneath a bridge in the middle of Biscayne Bay wasn't quite mad enough. Now they've added a woman. For two years, a colony of convicted sex offenders under the Julia Tuttle Causeway has lived in a public health travesty, without water or toilets or electrical service. They sleep in tents, shacks, the back seats of cars in the last realistic address in metropolitan Miami unaffected by city and county sex-offender residency laws. The numbers have been growing steadily as more convicted sex offenders emerge from prison and are consigned to finish out their wretched lives under a bridge...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 28, 2009 (boomark / email).