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Miami’s Sex Offender Bridge Encampment Continues to Grow
Loaded on July 15, 2009
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2009, page 36
by David M. Reutter
Filed under:
Discrimination,
Sex Offenders (Discrimination),
Sex Offender Residence.
Location:
Florida.
Population: 52. That’s how many sex offenders have been forced to live under the Julia Tuttle Causeway in Miami, Florida as of March 2009. In late 2007, the population was only 19. [See: PLN, June 2008, p.1].
With city and county laws creating restricted residency zones, ...
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