Reply #3: It doesn't, it is simply serves two purposes, [View All]

[MadHound]

One is it provides the charade that the state is actually doing something about sex offenders after they have served their time.

Two, it provide a means to continue to punish sex offenders after they have done their time, no matter how severe their crime was. Imagine being forced to live apart from your family and friends under a bridge because it is the only place that is outside the various legal limits that are attached to sex offenders. Imagine doing this for the rest of your life because you were drunk and got caught pissing in the alley, seen by some child. Or that you, at the age of seventeen or eighteen did the natural thing and had consensual sex with your sixteen year old girlfriend.

Many sex offender restrictions are simply public placebos, worse yet, ongoing punishment after the time is done. Some of them even lead to vigilante, mob justice being taken against an innocent man.

If you can't trust a person to control themselves outside of prison, then don't let them out. Once you do, and they have fulfilled their sentence, leave them alone, they've paid their price.