Recidivism Revised: An article at CNN.com chronicles the story of a man who had been tried and convicted of the rape of a 12 year old girl in 1991 and served 9 years and released. He had been considered for the state's violent sexual preditor program but was rejected during the screening process and released in 2000. Today there is a manhunt for the man because he kidnapped and raped two girls in a hidden dungeon behind his home.

This just begs the question as to levels of recidivism among predators. When a person is convicted of a crime of violence, especially those against children, why do they get a second chance? It seems that if we stepped up our punishment guidelines on this issue we would be a lot better off as a society. What we need is a predators prison. In the old days they would send you to debtors prison, why not make one just for the predators? Let's give the good people of the North Slope, Alaska a few hundred million dollars to build a state of the art facility with a thousand individual cells. If they want to go out in the exercise yard, let them (currently the temperature is seventeen below, but they are expecting a warming trend to take it to 5 degrees). If they want visitors, they can have their lawyers make the trip as many times as they want. Too extreme? Then let's buy up a few thousand acres on the south Texas border and do it there. In fact, lets give any state that wants to house these people the opportunity, but lets just do it! If you are convicted of sexually assaulting a child with violence you get a free trip for the rest of your life.