Originally posted by KazetNagorraOnly the 'Chinese Chop' would guarantee a 100% success, and why not make it compulsory for persistent, and otherwise untreatable, offenders?
Yes, it's basically institutionalized populism. A worrying sign that the SC agreed with this. If sex offenders are too dangerous to be released into society, then there should be a life sentence for sexual offenses. Personally, I think it would be a good idea to offer male sex offenders a reduced sentence if they get castrated.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-05-20-sexual-predator-california_N.htm?csp=obinsite
Sting puts Calif. sexual predator back in hospital
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By Brian Indrelunas, The (Palm Springs, Calif) Desert Sun
A sexually violent predator placed in the small community of Desert Center has been returned to a state mental hospital after violating the terms of his release while traveling in the Coachella Valley.
Surveillance of Steven Joseph Willett, 57, conducted Monday by Riverside County Sheriff's deputies and members of the county's Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement Team showed that he violated the terms of his court-ordered conditional release, sheriff's Capt. Dan Wilham said Wednesday.
"Mr. Willett is under some very strict requirements pertaining to his release," Wilham said. "Some of those requirements are that he not date, he not contact women."
RELOCATION: Releases of sexually violent predators anger local areas
But Willett contacted an undercover female deputy stationed at a Coachella Valley bus stop where he boarded a bus en route to court-ordered treatment in Palm Desert, Wilham said.
"Immediately, he followed her onto the bus," Wilham said. "He sat next to her on the bus — all violations of his agreement. He tried to encourage her to come back to his residence.
"These are all things that predators do and things that are not in and of themselves criminal acts, but they are violations of his civil commitment order."
Nancy Kincaid, assistant director of the California Department of Mental Health, said Willett did not break the law and was not arrested.
"These individuals are very closely monitored," she said. "It is that very close monitoring system that allows us to protect the public and identify someone who may need to go back to the hospital before they commit a crime."
The state defines sexually violent predators as convicts who have been diagnosed with a mental disorder that makes them likely to commit another sexually violent crime. A 1996 law allows civil commitment of those offenders.
Willett was convicted of four felony sex crimes and, after serving prison terms for those crimes, was committed to a state mental hospital as a sexually violent predator.
A court ordered his conditional release, which the state Department of Mental Health opposed, in 2008. Willett was placed in Desert Center, an unincorporated community of 300 people about 50 miles east of Indio, in September.
Since being placed in a mobile home in a remote area along Highway 177, the state has paid about $2,000 a month for his rent, utilities, food and a delivered water supply. The state pays another $2,000 per month for his court-ordered treatment.
Willett has been required to wear a GPS ankle bracelet and attend therapy sessions and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings in the Coachella Valley, according to sheriff's officials. For the past month, he has been allowed to use SunLine buses to travel in the valley.
Wilham, who serves as Palm Desert's police chief and commands the sheriff's station located in the city, said Monday was the first time the sheriff's department checked up on Willett in the valley.
"He's come into our city, the city of Palm Desert, and I was concerned as police chief here of what he may be up to, so we initiated the surveillance," Wilham said.
Plainclothes deputies rode on the bus that Willett took Monday, and the undercover female deputy was also placed at a bus stop he used, Wilham said.
Deputies discussed what they saw with Liberty Healthcare Corp., the company contracted by the state to manage the sexually violent predator program, officials said.
Liberty Healthcare then made the determination that Willett had violated the conditions of his release, Wilham said.
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Troll (35 friends, send message) wrote: 20h 24m ago
not only was he getting 4000 a month in state support but.......(see below) an the government wonders why their going broke. This criminal should have a life sentance of hard labor where he pays his way or rots in a 4x6 cell without any of lifes niceities
Rember this is what a liberal PC bleeding heart government does for the taxpayer
The State of California is paying more than $126,000 this year to move a house in the middle of the empty desert, 55 miles from the nearest city, for a man who has run out of prison sentences.
Steven Joseph Willett, 57, was freed from prison, and then a mental hospital, with a record of four felony sex crimes, including rape, attempted rape and lewd and lascivious acts with a 13-year-old child, according to the Desert Sun.
Willett was released in September 2008 and the state moved him into a brand new $34,000 mobile home. The home was hauled out to a lot off state Route 177, near Desert Center, a sunbaked hamlet of 300 people some 200 miles east of Los Angeles.... ...
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local-beat/Sta te-Pays-126000-to-Move-House-to-Empty-Desert-849 14147.htm
Originally posted by zeeblebotFMF: Wait a second.
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Troll (35 friends, send message) wrote: 20h 24m ago
not only was he getting 4000 a month in state support but.......(see below) an the government wonders why their going broke. This criminal should have a life sentance of hard labor where he pays his way or rots in a 4x6 cell without any of lifes niceities
Rember this is what a libera ...[text shortened]... nbclosangeles.com/news/local-beat/Sta te-Pays-126000-to-Move-House-to-Empty-Desert-849 14147.htm
Who is "Troll" and who are his 35 friends?
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Originally posted by zeeblebotEssentially this guy is being imprisoned for trying to have consensual sex with an adult female.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-05-20-sexual-predator-california_N.htm?csp=obinsite
Sting puts Calif. sexual predator back in hospital
Posted 1d 3h ago | Comments 22 | Recommend 3
By Brian Indrelunas, The (Palm Springs, Calif) Desert Sun
A sexually violent predator placed in the small community of Desert Center has been returned t ...[text shortened]... t Willett had violated the conditions of his release, Wilham said.
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Originally posted by sh76Scalia and Thomas are usually on the right side of things, simply because they rule on the Constitution and law, and are generally immune to the pragmatism of many of the others on the court regardless of the liberal/conservative labels.
http://tinyurl.com/2w5qjd7
[i]The Supreme Court said Monday that the federal government can keep "sexually dangerous" prisoners in custody past the completion of their sentences, overruling arguments that only states hold such power.
The ruling was 7-2, with Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas in dissent.
In the sex offender case, writing for ...[text shortened]... t.
Later, I have to read Scalia's dissent. I'm sure it will be fun. They generally are.
While pragmatically, I like the idea of keeping sex offenders in jail indefinitely, the Constitution and law don't provide that option. It is always just as important to do things the right way, not just to do the right thing.