Unusual solution

There is an article in today's Findlaw's

blotter about a community in Florida

that is made-up of sex offender

housing. There is a church whose

membership is also made up of

sex offenders primarily.

This is an unusual approach but has

the underlying philosophy of trying

to assist these "outcasts" to have

housing and employment in addition

to other types of counseling and help.

All against a background of keeping

society's children safe from known

predators who are not in prison.

This seems like a good idea if it is

limited to truly low level offenders:

Teen who has willing sex with another

teen who is underage; touching incidents

and others where no children or rape

is involved.

Basic problem is that we apply the same

label to a multitude of different offenses.

Can you think of a better approach to

assisting these offenders?