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Furor as sex offenders move near San Quentin
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 5/5/6 | Mark Martin, Peter Fimrite

Posted on 05/05/2006 4:36:58 PM PDT by SmithL

Neighbors upset that parolees live in trailer on prison grounds -

Twelve registered sex offenders who can't find a place to live moved into a large trailer on the grounds of San Quentin State Prison Thursday, sparking an angry outcry from people who live near the prison and Marin County officials who want the parolees sent somewhere else.

The unwelcome parolees had been living in a Vallejo hotel until earlier this week, when the hotel owner kicked them out, prisons officials said. Parole agents have been unable to find anywhere else to put them and settled on San Quentin as temporary housing.

The move upset Marin County officials, who noted that none of the parolees was from the county.

"I am greatly disturbed that the Department of Corrections has decided to round up a bunch of high-risk sex offenders from around the area and dump them here in Marin County,'' said Assemblyman Joe Nation, D-San Rafael, who appeared at a hastily called press conference with Marin County Sheriff Robert Doyle.

The dispute is an example of a continuing problem up and down the state: With increasing restrictions on where paroled sex offenders can live, state officials are having a harder time finding homes for them.

One of the parolees is from San Francisco, and a new state law prohibiting some sex offenders from living within half a mile of schools leaves only two areas in the city with hotels that could house offenders who don't have family or friends they can move in with after release from prison, said Elaine Jennings, press secretary for the state's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: childmolesters; sexoffenders; sexualpredators
Seven of the parolees were convicted of child molestation; others went to prison for offenses ranging from indecent exposure to corporal injury on a spouse.

If the child molesters had received justice, we wouldn't be looking for a place above ground for them.

1 posted on 05/05/2006 4:36:59 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

But, but we have to reach out to them especially if they didn't have the best homelife growing up.

/s


2 posted on 05/05/2006 4:43:00 PM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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To: SmithL
Assemblyman Joe Nation, D-San Rafael

Ignoring for a moment the comments that they should be dead or in prison and looking at the actual situation, I would ask Joe nation:

If not here, where?

Give the prison a realistic alternative to this. if they have served their time, are legally free, then they should be allowed to live someplace.

3 posted on 05/05/2006 4:43:58 PM PDT by Michael.SF. ("Cynicism, is an unpleasant way of telling the truth" -- Lillian Hellman)
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To: SmithL
Pedophiles should NEVER be paroled because they cannot be cured.
4 posted on 05/05/2006 4:44:46 PM PDT by onyx (They're ILLEGAL! --- tough, FACTS DON'T MATTER.)
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To: Michael.SF.
If not here, where? Give the prison a realistic alternative to this. if they have served their time, are legally free, then they should be allowed to live someplace.

Agreed.

5 posted on 05/05/2006 4:57:53 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: onyx

I can cure a Pedophile. You wanna know the cure?



[1] A good Texas Ass Kicking
[2] Spay or Neuter the Perp.
[3] GPS Tracking coupled with a shock collar. If the dude gets within 500 yards of a school or a place where children are he will be a smouldering corpse. It will have a voice box and if detects a childs voice in distress it will kill him after 10 seconds.


6 posted on 05/05/2006 5:02:31 PM PDT by Ainast
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To: onyx

"Pedophiles should NEVER be paroled because they cannot be cured."

Honest psychologists will confirm this.


7 posted on 05/05/2006 5:23:17 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: SmithL
I've got the place for them: A deserted island in the Aleutians without any provisions. They won't last long.
8 posted on 05/05/2006 5:27:46 PM PDT by proudofthesouth (Mao said that power comes at the point of a rifle; I say FREEDOM does.)
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To: lepton

Make them border guards in a camp set up by Sheriff Arapaio in Arizona. They can guard a sector to ensure nobody crosses under penalty of molestation.


9 posted on 05/05/2006 6:09:56 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (crime would drop like a sprung trapdoor if we brought back good old-fashioned hangings)
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To: Ainast
My cure is a lot simpler


10 posted on 05/05/2006 9:28:35 PM PDT by JRios1968 (In memoriam...)
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To: JRios1968

I guess this means that I fall into the evil genius ala Dr. Evil style and you fall into the more practical James Bond style.

I like my plan better because its more elaborate and prone to failure.

jk I really wish we could just shoot 75% of the people in jail.


11 posted on 05/05/2006 9:40:24 PM PDT by Ainast
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To: Ainast

But do you make sure they are guarded by sharks with laser beams on their frickin' heads?

12 posted on 05/05/2006 9:54:56 PM PDT by JRios1968 (In memoriam...)
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To: JRios1968
The sharks with the frikin lazer beams attached to their heads were not ready... :-(

on the other hand I do have a four frikin ferocious ferrets with frikin lazers beams attached to their heads on there heads.
13 posted on 05/05/2006 10:07:36 PM PDT by Ainast
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To: Ainast

Well, the pedophiles better make sure they don't make Mr Bigglesworth angry...


14 posted on 05/05/2006 10:13:45 PM PDT by JRios1968 (In memoriam...)
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To: JRios1968

oh my cats bad assed. I rarely ever see him. He's alwasy slinking off into the woods and jumping out at you when you least expect it. Actually I'm getting rid of the crazy thing. It will attack you for no reason.

Then again he does make a good guard kittie.


15 posted on 05/05/2006 10:30:05 PM PDT by Ainast
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