Sunday, July 31, 2005

"Long-term offender re-arrested by police" Submitted by Andrew Hoshkiw

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This guy, John Sam from Whitehorse, has been arrested and convicted of molesting children three times. Now he's been arrested again on various charges.

My question is, why do we keep letting these people out of prison? What's the point, when it just seems they're going to re-offend over and over and over?

You'd think the criminal justice people would come to realize that maybe this guy has a problem and maybe he shouldn't be out walking the streets.

Here's article
the article from February, when he was released on parole. According to the article, at the time of his release, police said "he is considered a high risk to re-offend against women and children."

But they had to let him out, as he had served his full 27-month sentence. The whole thing seems rather disgusting to me. 27 months doesn't seem like an appropriate length for a first offence, let alone the third.

And it says he refused treatment while in prison. My god, shouldn't that be a big requirement to getting released? If there's no rehabilitation at all, what good can they hope will come from releasing him?

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