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"Sex Offenders Forced To Live Under Miami Bridge"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the title of this segment from today's episode of All Things Considered on NPR. Here are excerpts: In Miami, a causeway in the middle of Biscayne Bay has become home to one of the county's least desirable populations: sex offenders. What began a few years ago as a stopgap solution has become de facto public policy.  For sex offenders with few resources who want to stay in Miami, there's just one option: an encampment of tents and shacks on the Julia Tuttle Causeway. The encampment got started a few years ago, when Miami-Dade County, like other communities across the country, adopted an ordinance banning sex offenders from living within 2,500 feet of anywhere that children gather.... What once was a collection of tents has now become a small village...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 20, 2009 (boomark / email).