# Sex offenders are not allowed near children. Could one set up a place that is the opposite? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 4, 2011, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-offenders-are-not-allowed-near-children-could-one-set-up-a-place-that-is-the-opposite/601884 "2011-11-04T19:03:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-offenders-are-not-allowed-near-children-could-one-set-up-a-place-that-is-the-opposite/601884/1 "2011-11-04T19:03:41Z")
Sex offenders, according to the news anyway, are not allowed near children. Could one set up a colony for sex offenders where children are not allowed? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-offenders-are-not-allowed-near-children-could-one-set-up-a-place-that-is-the-opposite/601884/2 "2011-11-04T19:04:32Z")
They did in the second X-Files movie, but there was also a head transplant in it… ---
**Author:** ![Cap\_n\_Obvious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@Cap\_n\_Obvious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cap_n_Obvious)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-offenders-are-not-allowed-near-children-could-one-set-up-a-place-that-is-the-opposite/601884/3 "2011-11-04T19:42:34Z")
The city of Miami set up such a [colony](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Tuttle_Causeway_sex_offender_colony) back in 2006. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-offenders-are-not-allowed-near-children-could-one-set-up-a-place-that-is-the-opposite/601884/4 "2011-11-04T19:52:52Z")
> [@janeslogin](#): > > Sex offenders, according to the news anyway, are not allowed near children. Could one set up a colony for sex offenders where children are not allowed? Well, there are difficulties involved, but one could scale the idea down. For example, one could construct a very large building capable of housing a number of sex offenders. Locking mechanisms and trained personnel would keep the sex offenders confined to this very large building, whilst simultaneously keeping most members of the public outside. Something like that might work, though it would be hideously expensive. And I fear there would be a temptation to put all sorts of people in this building who probably wouldn’t deserve to be there. Social conservatives often get annoyed with drug users, for example, but it would be a shame if that led to drug users being sent to live in a very large building against their will. Fortunately, it’s all hypothetical. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-offenders-are-not-allowed-near-children-could-one-set-up-a-place-that-is-the-opposite/601884/5 "2011-11-04T20:53:39Z")
British journalist Louis Theroux had an [episode](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Place_for_Paedophiles)of his documentary series in which he visited a [state run hospital](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalinga_State_Hospital) that only deals with pedophiles & child molesters. > [@](#): > > It is a maximum security civil-commitment facility built to ensure that sexually violent predators stay out of the community. > > Instead of calling the population housed at CSH “patients” or “inmates,” hospital policy is to call them “individuals” because they are civilly-committed. Staff address the individuals by their last names (i.e., Mr. Jones) to maintain professional boundaries.