Megan's Law

[Emsworth]

"Megan's Law" is a highly peculiar way of dealing with dangerous sex offenders. We decide that we must let them out onto the streets, but that we must warn their neighbors of the danger they pose. This, supposedly, is the best means of protecting society. Would it not be more straightforward to simply keep them locked up in jail for a longer period of time?

If an individual has committed such a heinous act that he is clearly beyond rehabilitation, then he should simply be imprisoned for life. There is no reason for which rapists and child molestors should be shown leniency. And if his crime is not so severe, if he can truly be rehabilitated, then what is the need for putting his name on a sex offender list? But state legislatures, in their infinite wisdom, have taken a different approach.