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| Sex offenders being moved; reaction mixed |
| By Philadelphia Daily News |
| Published: 11/03/2003 |
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Once again, protests and publicity have prompted state prison officials to begin moving sex offenders out of one neighborhood and into another. Neighborhood activists said last week that state prison officials had begun moving 68 sex offenders out of some state-run halfway houses. They moved them to another state-run facility on the edge of North Philadelphia, state prison spokeswoman Sue McNaughton confirmed last night. Reaction was mixed. Sultan Shah, special assistant to the president and CEO of the Renaissance Community Development Corp. on Warnock Street near Jefferson in North Philadelphia, was pleased. Patricia Bullard, acting president of the Hawthorne Empowerment Coalition, on Carpenter Street near 12th, in South Philadelphia, was frustrated that state officials aren't moving quicker. "They moved some of them. We asked them to move them all in two weeks," said Bullard, who organized a protest outside of the Bainbridge Street halfway house last Wednesday. "I think they're just pulling our leg. We could be doing this for weeks." In June, state corrections officials moved 68 sex offenders - including 35 pedophiles - out of three halfway houses in Juniata Park after residents protested. Officials refused to say where they put them. On Oct. 16, the Daily News revealed that 25 were in the 15th Street facility and 43 were in the Bainbridge Street facility, prompting outrage from the community. State corrections officials began moving the offenders out of the two halfway houses immediately. Bullard said officials told her that 13 are left at the South Philly halfway house and 11 at the one in North Philly. McNaughton would not confirm those figures. Bullard said she may refile a lawsuit against the Department of Corrections that she'd dropped before she found out about the sex offenders. |
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