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Local Lawmaker Suggests Sending Sex Offenders To Mexico

Posted: 12:18 pm EDT June 16, 2005Updated: 12:29 pm EDT June 16, 2005

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MARION COUNTY, Fla. -- A Marion County commissioner wants to send sex offenders to Mexico.

During a forum Wednesday night at Central Florida Community College, commissioner Randy Harris suggested the U.S. and Mexico could work out a deal to send our most serious sexual offenders and predators to a Mexican prison.

"Well, it's obvious the American prison system is not a good deterrent to serious offenders and I think, very likely, the Mexican prison system would be a good deterrent," Harris said.

Members of the Mexican community said the prisons in Mexico will not change the criminals.
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