good article

I am always amazed at how many SEX offenses do not involve sex.

yep, don't have to have sex or touch anyone.

saw an article online that i stumbled on somewhere about whistles and cat calls were being considered as sex offenses because they are 'sexual harassment'. but before i could share my laptop locked up. i have since looked for it and have not even found a hint of it anywhere.

good one.

is there an actual list of what all "things" can label you and make you a registrant? it would be highly interesting.

ya know, thinking about this has really got me twisted up.

i honestly and truly don't want anyone to have to ever deal with this miserable nightmare in their lives.

but.... there's the thought, one that maybe we all have had at different times. it's not going to get better until millions of people are forced onto the registry or it happens to one of their loved ones, so that they all can come to learn what it's like.

the women in this article, JoDee Garretson, would be a perfect candidate... her child, sibling, husband or father getting arrested, convicted and labeled. i just have to wonder what her response would then be?

When i was locked up, I was with a few guys who were virgins. Being a Sex Offender before ever having sex, pretty strange.

Another method used to generate more income for the DOC is the use of outside work crews in which a group of inmates go on the outside of the prison with a CO and mow grass along the highway, paint public facilities, fix roads, or even hold road signs up in an area where the roads were being repaired.

The DOC paid the inmate about thirty dollars a month for a 40 hour work.

Then the DOC charged the DOT or the city where the inmates were working the full price of the labor being used----what that agency would normally have to pay if they contracted the work out to a private group. Then the DOC pocketed the difference in what they paid the inmate and what they charged the outside agencies for the work involved.

I saw a lot of little things like this and it showed me how much corruption there really is in our corrections systems.

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My post above was posted in the wrong thread. It should have been in the "Economics of Mass Incarceration" thread.

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There are lists out there of what can make you a sex offender.

http://www.oncefallen.com/youmightbersoif.html

The problem with this line of thinking in my opinion is that these are the exceptions to the people on the registry. Our enemies like to point out the truly bad offenders who keep on recidivating and we say, "that isn't the norm, they are exceptions, look at the statistics from the DOJ". This line of thinking is that exact argument our opponents are making but in reverse. It hasn't been effective because it looks like we are trying to minimize the crimes that got us on the registry. I'm that respect I think lists like this are counter productive to our cause. On the other hand I agree with you echo, the only way things will change is if enough people get put on the list so as to show the lunacy of the registry to enough people that it will finally change.

yep and to make the crime and punishment equal for ALL, straight across the board. no more getting off easy or scot free if your a politician or freaking rich.... or someone with power!

that's ok rew. it did make me think about the article i read a while ago about the governor of tx revamping the tx prisons so that they got a Nike contract for the prisoners to manufacture Nike sneakers.