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There is a blight covering our beloved country and on our land. As with any infestation, in the early stages, the damage goes unnoticed by those without a trained eye. As this blight begins to grow, those who have seen the damage are trying to stem the growth and remove the problem with unreasonable laws filled with revenge and hate. The infestation is still growing because what appeared appropriate on paper and in theory is a miserable failing everyone program.

I am speaking of men who are now serving a life sentence after finishing a court mandated state prison sentence. The solution is only making the situation worse and like the ineffective weed killer on the infestation, the problem grows bigger each day. The men and women serving a newly acquired life sentence are being punished for a crime they may commit somewhere and sometime in the future. These people have not broken any laws since their release from their prison sentence. They are continuing to receive the utmost torture because of a few soothsayers’ predictions. Who are these soothsayers with so much power? These are the men and women who have been declared mental health experts, who claim that they have the power and knowledge to make this world a better place by keeping a particular class of offender locked away until they die. These men and at least four women have been deemed the worst of the worst offenders. They are sex offenders classified as Sexually Violent Persons or Sexually Violent Predators (SVPs), and they are now relegated to the modern-day equivalent of a dungeon called civil commitment centers best known as Shadow Prisons.