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208. Making Sex Offenders Pay -- and Pay and Pay and Pay

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Sure, sex crimes are horrific, and the perpetrators deserve to be punished harshly. But society keeps exacting costs -- out-of-pocket and otherwise -- long after the prison sentence has been served.


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