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| No easy fix to homeless sex offenders |
| By Herald |
| Published: 05/05/2008 |
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WASHINGTON - Washington is not unique in its struggle with where to put sex offenders who have no place to sleep when they get out of prison. Nor did the state set a precedent with the decision to order convicted rapist David Torrence to wear a GPS tracking device and live under a Snohomish bridge. But when Torrence hacked off the equipment and went on the lam, forcing his victim to live again in fear, it spotlighted how the Department of Corrections arrived at this situation. And why it could happen again. "We're not fond of this 'under the bridge' plan. It emerges as the best of what you've got to work with when dealing with these offenders," Washington Secretary of Corrections Eldon Vail said Friday. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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