re: #62 b_sharp

Segregating a pedophile who hasn’t actually committed any crimes against children is wrong.

However, amongst those who have committed crimes, recividism is, as you say, close to 100%. And most pedophiles commit many, many crimes of abuse, not just a few.

I am one of those ultra-liberal types who think that prison should be rehabilitative, not punitive. However, pedophiles are a class of criminal that, so far, we have very few ways of rehabilitating. So I do, in fact, favor permanent incarceration for any pedophile after a firm diagnosis from psychiatrists.

However, it is vitally important that they not be in the general prison population, where they will be assaulted and likely killed, but in a psychiatric facility.