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Most Serious Sex Offenders in Boston Living in Homeless Shelters

Loaded on Jan. 15, 2008 published in Prison Legal News January, 2008, page 26
Filed under: Discrimination, Sex Offender Registration, Sex Offenders (Discrimination), Sex Offender Residence. Location: Massachusetts.
Efforts in Massachusetts to keep a close eye on released sex offenders have apparently failed. Rather than having such offenders in stable living environments where law enforcement officials can monitor them, 65 percent of the state?s most dangerous sex offenders stay in homeless shelters. That figure is for Level 3 ...

 

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