Issue: One strike, you’re out’: Initiative proposes tough punishment for sex offenders/Richard Roesler, Spokesman-Review
DFO: This approach to sex offenders appeals to me. But I wonder if voters will count the cost? One strike and your out will require far more prison beds. It’ll also mean that the courts don’t have discretion to judge between low-level sex offenders and far more dangerous ones. Then, you have to ask yourself, is there really such a thing as a “low-level sex offender”? As a victim of sex abuse (as a child), I still remember my experience. And I still feel nothing but contempt for the extended family member who got away with it, 50 years ago.
Question: Would you favor a “one strike and you’re out” policy?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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