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Jennifer Gonnerman has a very interesting piece in New York about a sex-offender cluster in Long Island. The piece offers some insight into their daily life, the nature of sex crimes, and their consequences.

Mickey wanted to live in a house where nobody drank or used drugs. But how could he create a sober house in a drug-infested neighborhood? The answer, he decided, was to fill it with men on parole, who have to submit to regular urine tests. “I decided I’d make it a parole house and let them watch ’em.”

He didn’t set out to fill the house with sex offenders specifically. It just worked out that way because there were so many sex offenders who needed housing.