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CA - No place to call home: Vagrant describes circumstances and how they came about

View the article here01/31/2009By SCOTT JASONJesse Rodriguez can be labeled many ways: father, boyfriend, two-strike felon, ex-con, homeless, a 43-year-old. The list goes on.But three numbers, 290, have defined his life for the past three years.Two-ninety serves as a euphemism for sex offenders. It refers to the penal code section that requires them to register with the state so law enforcement officers can track them.Rodriguez was convicted in 1981 of a sex offense when he was 15 years old. He calls it an assault in juvenile prison that he said was meant to test his manhood. He won the fight, but lost the war.A 2001 drunken driving conviction put him in the slam for several years. It also dredged up his teenaged crime and cast a long shadow on his life when he was released...continue to full post

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