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Haven’t read much about this decision yet, involving several convicted sexual deviants that have so far spent more than two years in prison beyond their original sentence. SCOTUS has upheld a law that federal prisoners can be detained indefinitely if it is determined that they continue to be ’sexually dangerous”. It appears that in the cases at hand , the men are being held until someone decides that they are somehow no longer a risk. I’m unclear on who makes that decision or how.

In the past, I have suggested to a friend that it is time to, at least, have a serious discussion about just such a law. I say this because it seems clear to me that there is no currently no “cure” for, say, pedophilia. So why pretend that a freed pedophile won’t strike again? Yes, I’m familiar with the high recidivism rate among most types of criminals, but i suggest that some crimes, such as those specifically aimed at children, might be a special case. Should there be a “two strikes” rule? If so, what should be the sentence? It seems to me that there should at least be a sentence–it should be something more defined than “X years plus whenever we decide to let you out”. Maybe “life with possibility of parole”? And on what is it contingent? A future therapeutic cure, consent to chemical castration, what?

Do you think this is a legally-defensible ruling? A morally-defensible one?

h/t to Talking Points Memo

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Looking forward to seeing how this garbage plays out. The Atlantic notes that more than half (HALF!) of America’s 2.5 million farm workers are undocumented. And a big chunk of our lettuce crop comes from Arizona. Now these workers, workers helping to make it possible for me to get lettuce on my 99-cent hamburger, may choose not to risk arrest in Arizona. And that ain’t good for Arizona since lettuce is “a $1 billion dollar business…and the state’s highest-value crop”.

And what of the argument that undocumented workers are taking these labor-intensive jobs from Americans? Tom Church, the president of Church Brothers, a large lettuce grower, says that American workers is the last thing his company wants. “If we had to rely on American workers, it would never get done…,” he says.”

Damn, Tom. That’s cold.

Arizona, you bastards deserve everything you get.