A lot of truth has been brought out here. Jana, I understand how you feel and I admire your ability to distinguish between how the laws should be written as opposed to how you personally feel.
About the sex preadators getting their due in prison. We shouldn't allow it for this reason. Dr. Rock explained about that 18 year old boy getting his teeth knocked out and repeatedly raped. I doubt he was there for being a sex predator and I doubt many of the middle age inmates were there for that reason either. Yes some were, but I would wager less than half. That boy should not have been treated that way.
The most reasonable action to take is one breifly mentioned. Castration being mandatory for certain sex crimes.
Second, is child predators must forever be separated from children except under circumstances where they are under the supervision of known responsible adults. They should have to register in every community they live in once and if they get out of prison and released to live freely in society.
I suggest that minimum security facilities where they have jobs on site and must stay on site and don't try to escape they can live there the rest of their lives if necessary to keep them away from children.
It is harder to keep those who rape women away from women. Women have legal rights and if they choose to be in the company of a known rapist who has been released from prison, that is their choice.
However, that is something not being done in our society is to require all rapists and sex predators to register with the local authorities. Many states require only child sex predators to register. All should register.
I want to revisit the concept of the minimum security prison where the prisoners are self supporting by having jobs. After so many years in real prisoni, this should be the next phase. If they mess up by not following the rules, it is back to real prison and they should earn the right to get to go to the minimum security facility. It would save the public money and also help protect people from being raped.
But we have to be reasonable about sex predation. Brutally raping a person is not the same as being convicted of "looking" or "groping" especially if the actifvity stopped when the person said no.
And I certainly wouldn't locik up adults because the took a shower with underage youth of same gender unless there was real sexual activity coing on. I wouldn't count erections as predatory. Even a light spank on the rump might be inappropriate in the shower but not someting to lock someone up forever for.
Some public institutions now have such strict rules that an adult can loose their job for inappropriate behavior that really wasn't inappropriate and no hint of hanky panky went on. Institutions are going overboard with rules to prevent child molestation and are forbidding teachers to hug the preschoolers. That is a bit harsh. Now when a preschooler or first grader soils his pants at school, only the nurse can change the child even if that means a long wait. The teacher would be a predator if they changed the child.
At some schools if a high school boy maybe "slightly" injured he must go to the female nurse rather than the male coach even if he is protesting this strongly refusing to see the nurse but said the coach could check out the injury The coach has had first aid and would know if a doctor is needed. A nurse can't treat the problem anyway. So, if a boy protests having to see the female nurse and request the coach, why should the coach be considered a predator if he checks the boy out and then says yes, a doctor is needed and needed now. And the doctor confirms this.
So we must and need a list of sexual crimes before really determining the long term punishments. In the above story, the coach might be disciplined for not following procedure even thought the boy was in dire need of a doctor. But certainly no sex crime has been done. Yet some are wanted to write it that way.
Long post again. But I thought it needed to mention that all supposed sex crimes are not the same. The horrendous rape that Jana describes deserves very harsh punishment. First, castration. Then a long prison term. Then maybe a minimum security facility and then if rehabilitation has occured the guy be alowed out in free society.
Last point, years being sentenced is only part of the solution. Somewhere rabilitation should have to be documented regardlless of how lonw the prisoner has been there. If no rehabilitation has occurred, the prisoner needs to stay in prison and away from society.
Right now we have the largest percentage of our people in prison of any civilized country. We have some serious problems that go beyond just sex predators that we as a nation (America) must come to terms with.
