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RealClearInvestigations' Picks of the Week
RealClearInvestigations' Picks of the Week
Feb. 12 to Feb. 18
“Sex Offenders Are Still Locked Up After Serving Their Time. Why?”
Imprisoning people not for what they’ve done but what they might do sounds less American than Kafkaesque. And yet today, more than 5,000 former sex offenders, having served their sentences, are still being held indefinitely by 20 states, as Richard Bernstein reports for RealClearInvestigations:
Civil confinement lies at the fraught intersection of crime, sex, and politics, in which sexual crimes, and just the possibility of sexual crimes, are treated differently from other offenses. Murderers, armed robbers, drunken hit-and-run drivers, insider traders, and other criminals are released when their prison sentences have been served.
Other noteworthy articles or series:
Ivy League Prof Works at Bronx Checking-Cashing Store - Business Insider
Can Smoking Weed Reduce the Opioid Epidemic? - The Atlantic
Drownings and Australia's Fateful Bond With the Sea - Sydney Morning Herald
Even As Media Atomize, It’s Blockbusters-Take-All - Economist
New Hampshire Voter Fraud Questions Go Unanswered - Concord Patch
