The thugs who tortured and killed that family in Connecticut met in a group home. If you’ve ever lived near a group home for criminals in general or sex offenders in particular, you ‘d realize that this isn’t the answer. People with a “high risk of reoffending” (or habitual criminals, as were both of the thugs in Connecticut) belong in one place only: jail.
That was what the woman in the article said. At the same time, you are suggesting more overcrowding for a penal system that is already bursting at the seams.
While I understand your sentiments and I don’t for an instant discount them, how different from a group home do you suppose it is that high percentages of sex offenders are apt. dwellers with roommates?
I would have thought in a group home there would be appropriate supervision. Evidently that was not the case in CT. Either that, or those thugs made their plans elsewhere.