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Tennessee not a magnet for unregistered fugitives

By "eAdvocate"

11-7-2010 Tennessee: Though Tennessee ranks ninth among all states for the number of arrests of unregistered sex offenders, it is not the magnet for fugitive sex offenders that some other states are. Most unregistered sex offenders arrested in Tennessee will have committed their original sexual offense in state. Since 1995, Knox County Criminal Court has processed 425 cases of failure to register as a sex offender. Of those, 263 have resulted in convictions. Over 15 years they have arrested 425 folks, and only 263 were convicted, that means 38% were arrested unnecessarily; even though not convicted I'm sure they paid a price for the illegal arrest. In real numbers that county has 17 folks a year convicted for failure to register; 1.5 per month...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on November 07, 2010 (boomark / email).