Re: Comments?

[Margaret Tarbet <tarbet@swaa.com>]

Nick wrote:

>I gave mixed emotions regarding the registration (and, subsequently, the
>public "outing") of convicted sex offenders...

I do too, and i'm sure for the same reasons you do -- the same
reasons illuminated in the article.  

Recidivism is high, but it's not 100%.  I could feel more
comfortable seeing recidivists outed, because most sex offenders who
go straight afterward, do so after the first time.    The offender
who offends a second time is probably not healthy enough to keep
from doing it a third, fouth, and fifth time too.   

But the Virginia plan to put common felony and even misdemeanor
records online -- wow!  That really gives me the creeps.   What
price rehabilitation?   What does it take before someone has 'paid
his debt to society' in full?  Is any error to be a life sentence?