Wednesday, April 9, 2008

For sexual predators, it's a camp of isolation

This is a lengthy story that you can read by following the link.
clipped from www.miamiherald.com
Juan Martin, left, and Patrick Wiese, right, smoke cigarettes while standing beneath the Julia Tuttle Causeway as the city of Miami begins to turn it's lights on at dusk.

Juan Martin, left, and Patrick Wiese, right, smoke cigarettes while standing beneath the Julia Tuttle Causeway as the city of Miami begins to turn it's lights on at dusk.

The bridge overhead is so close there isn't room for a man to stand.
All the neighbors are felons and everyone lives in Wal-Mart tents
There's no running water, no sewer system and one gasoline-powered generator.
This camp of sex offenders beneath the Julia Tuttle Causeway made news in February, when the Department of Corrections probation officers arrived and began passing out notices that said the men -- largely barred by local ordinances from living almost anywhere else in Miami-Dade County -- might be charged with trespassing if they stayed under the bridge.
There are 2,050 registered sex offenders and predators in Miami-Dade and another 1,252 in Broward,
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