Reply #8: Florida is one of three states that doens't provide any therapy

[soryang]

...or treatment of any kind to sex offenders in prison. So uber restrictive limits on residence and activity are instituted at the state and local level. Most offenders released from prison are not on parole but conditional release. Parole was phased out quite a few years ago. Studies show recidivism is much lower for treated inmates. Also some studies show that recidivism for sex offenses is less than that for other felony inmates. In any case, those classified as sexual predators are subject to indefinite civil commitment. So the Florida Representative interviewed is raising a straw man. Those sexual predators viewed as a continuing threat to society are never intentionally released from confinement under the Jimmy Rice laws. Those sexual offenders awaiting their classification for civil commitment status before so called "release into society" (Jimmy Rice hearings) are held in detainment without due process of law for two and a half years on average before the penurious Republican state gets around to giving them a hearing for classification. Non sexual predators under conditional release or probation for sex offenders are not permitted within thousand yards of a playground, so I don't know what the narrator is talking about. Only a former offender under no restraint on liberty at all, could go near a playground without the risk of return to prison with a mandatory sentence of at least 36 months.