[trussell]

Lock them up and throw away the key!

Agreed! Unfortunately, this comment: He is a Level 3 — high risk for reoffending. He is not deemed so dangerous, or his crimes so serious, that he qualifies to be locked up longer. seems to be the norm for this type of offense.

If they are a Level 3, they shouldn't be released back into the community. If the judge or the parole board want to release him, they should board him at their house with access to their family instead of putting everyone else at risk.

[XR7]

"He is a Level 3 — high risk for reoffending. He is not deemed so dangerous, or his crimes so serious, that he qualifies to be locked up longer."
Good Lord...where does one begin?

He has already ESCAPED.
A nationwide warrant has been issued.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews

Warrant issued for sex offender who dumped monitoring device at Lynnwood apartment

Snohomish County authorities and the Washington State Department of Corrections are searching for a Level 3 sex offender who cut off his GPS bracelet Wednesday night and tossed it at a Lynnwood apartment complex. He was released from prison this week. David J. Torrence, 43, who served a one-year sentence for failure to register as a sex offender, was on active supervision with the corrections department in Monroe. But that changed last night, when Torrence cut off his monitoring device, according to the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office. The corrections department has issued a nationwide warrant for felony escape with no bail. In 1995, Torrence pleaded guilty in Snohomish County Superior Court to raping a 16-year-old girl...

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20080429/NEWS01/107935135/0/FRONTPAGE

Rapist under bridge was placed near victim's home

David J. Torrence

SNOHOMISH -- The bridge where state officials told a high-risk sex offender to sleep after his release from prison earlier this month is less than five miles from the home of the woman he raped. Some of her children go to an elementary school blocks from the bridge. Another goes to the high school about a mile away. "I'm scared to be at my house now. I'm scared to go around town. I'm scared to run into him. I'm scared for my kids at school," said Sabrina, 29. She asked that her last name not be used. "I don't think he has anything to lose now, so who knows what he'll do." Police still are looking for David J. Torrence, 43, a level-3 sex offender released from prison on April 20. He was told by state parole officers to sleep below a bridge along 88th Street SW under U.S. 2 near Snohomish. Torrence is homeless. State Corrections Department officials determined the bridge was the best location for them to keep an eye on the convicted rapist while the search continued for more appropriate housing. Three days after his release, he cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet. Police on Thursday found the GPS system ditched near an apartment in Lynnwood.

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Is it just me, or does reading this stuff make your blood boil?