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It's just another bump on a slippery slope of absolute, no exceptions legalities that now have close to 1% of the U.S. population in Prison... this is insane.

I can understand a murderer, or gang leader released after serving 20-30 years of a "life sentence" as a conditional parole... or even a true child sex offender, not someone who was 19yo with a 16yo girlfriend (not speaking to this case, but someone I knew who fell into that scenario and now has to register for the rest of his life, even though he later married that same woman).

The ex post facto bit is even more disturbing.




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