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The New York Times and the LA Times are making a big issue about what to do with pedophiles and other sex offenders after they complete their prison sentences. Now it costs millions of dollars and takes a decade or more to execute anyone. There are nearly 400 thousand registered sex offenders. We can't execute all of them unless we come up with a cheaper, quicker method. Keeping someone in prison for life isn't cheap either.

If we sent the pedophiles and other sex offenders to agricultural work camps it would be a lot less expensive than prison. The detainees could support themselves working in the fields. That way the farmers wouldn’t have to employ illegal immigrants. Prisoners are already being used this way, so it’s really only a small step.

We could use those detention camps where we put the Japanese during World War II. I read recently that they were thinking about making them national monuments or some such thing. This would put them to better use. If there aren’t enough existing camps, new ones could be built for the overload.

And another thing, we know that boys who are sexually abused turn out to be sex offenders. It's a vicious cycle that is spiraling out of control. So they should be sent to juvenile camps. They can go to the adult camps when they are old enough.

I know that sounds terrible, but we have to do something to break the chain of sex abuse. In an epidemic drastic steps must sometimes be taken. http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2007/03/15/20070315-C1-00.html

And if we are going to let them run around loose instead of putting them away someplace then requiring florescent green registration plates on the cars of pedophiles and other sex offenders is a good idea. But they aren’t in their automobiles all the time. They are often just walking around. Restricting where they can live doesn’t help all that much because they can get in their cars, park anywhere and then do whatever they want without anyone taking notice.

So I think they should also have to wear florescent green name tags on the front and back of their clothing.
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=590303&format=print and http://www.winonadailynews.com/articles/2007/04/26/wi/2wis26.prt

These criminals had the audacity to plan a protest. That sort of thing should not be permitted to happen. http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=27406

you could eliminate half the problem by putting them into the general population instead of seperate "housing" and let their peers.... Then maybe we would have less offenders! my .02

Maybe we should just tattoo a big red "P" on their foreheads.
I think the number of views of this thread is an indication that few people really have a clue what to do with pedophiles.
To me pedophiles and rapists should be treated like someone who has committed first degree murder. The damage they inflict on their victims is as bad as if they had committed murder because their victims have to live the rest of their lives with the emotional damage inflicted upon them by their attacker.

just shoot them.

Unfortunately there is no death penalty for those crimes. Even my husband who is for the death penalty for murder argues that if their were a death penalty for child molestation and rape, that the victims of those crimes would be killed rather than left alive to ID their attackers. I see his point but it is one issue on which we disagree.

Kathy wrote:

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Unfortunately there is no death penalty for those crimes. Even my husband who is for the death penalty for murder argues that if their were a death penalty for child molestation and rape, that the victims of those crimes would be killed rather than left alive to ID their attackers. I see his point but it is one issue on which we disagree.

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The damage they inflict on their victims is as bad as if they had committed murder because their victims have to live the rest of their lives with the emotional damage inflicted upon them by their attacker.

Well that's logical, since you think consensual sex between an adult and a teenager is as bad as murdering the youth. So what if they kill them, it can't be any worse.<br><br>Post edited by: steviejames, at: 2007/08/08 02:50