January 8, 2010
Increase in homeless sex offender parolees
Less than a year after state corrections officials tightened a $22 million spigot of free apartments and motel rooms for paroled sex offenders, the number of convicts claiming to be homeless has nearly doubled, adding fuel for critics who say the tight living restrictions under Jessica's Law threaten public safety more than bolstering it.
More than 2,200 paroled sex offenders were registered as transient in November, state figures show, up from 1,257 a year ago and 88 in September 2007. That was just before parole officials began enforcing a ban on sex offenders living within 2,000 feet of a school or park where kids "regularly gather."
The ranks of paroled sex offender at large — on the lam, free of GPS anklets — also grew, from 58 in 2007 to about 500, according to the state Sex Offender Management Board…
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