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Originally Posted by JayP
It just doesn't make sense in North America - we focus our prison system on retribution and not rehabilitation and then complain when criminal's time runs out and they get released as "high risk".
It'd be ideal to have systems like they do in Europe where if they declare that someone isn't rehabilitated and is a high risk to re-offend they stay in prison until they're deemed worthy to re-enter society. But it's impossible to logically do that when your system is to throw criminals in a concrete cell for years and hope they learned their lesson. Most prisoners that get released aren't rehabilitated.
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Do you honestly believe that sex offenders like this can be rehabilitated, What they do is a part of their sex drive as it is other factors.
In this case its as much about the need to dominate and assert himself over woman as it is about any kind of sexual gratification.
I believe that the justice system has to be equally distributed between rehabilitation, public safety, and punishment. For someone like this it really falls under a public safety issue and in theory the dangerous offender tag should have really been applied during prosecution, that way there would have been open ended release conditions similar to what you have in europe.
Most lawyers don't seem to be willing to go after that tag because the burden of proof is extremely high.
So yes, I believe its a failure of the justice system because it sounds like all of the available tools weren't applied, nor were all of the possible sentencing options.