I hate being woken by Campus Safety. And now? Now I go down to the parking office. Remember me.

[xoder]

Read this /. article on sex offenders and tracking them with GPS for the rest of their life first.

Let's go over the reasons for imprisionment again:

• Punishment—Simply, "tsk, tsk, don't do that again." Frankly, a bad justification, as we are not three-year-olds.
• Deterrant—Obviously you ain't doin' a good job of deterring people if you cannot trust them to not do it again!
• Reformation—See above

This country really needs to take a long, critical look at its attitudes and policies towards sex, violence, punishment, love, drugs, and everything else. I pray we can get at least one slightly more sane law on the books from it.

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[farandthefair.livejournal.com]

Florida's new law could also open the door to the death penalty for more killers, because it allows a defendant's status as a sexual predator to be considered as an aggravating factor during sentencing for a murder.

I think this is one of the scariest things out of the entire article.