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22nd June 2009, 10:06
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8110356.stm
They have ended up living in a makeshift tent city under one of the causeway's bridges because of a local law which prohibits those who have sexually abused minors from living within 2,500 ft (760m) of anywhere where children congregate, such as schools, libraries and parks.
After the local laws were enacted, Florida's correctional authorities found there was virtually nowhere else for these people to live and began dropping them off at the bridge.
Some of them have even been issued with driving licences with the bridge listed as their home address.
"We have people living together with mental and physical illnesses in an environment where people can't possibly sleep because of the cars going by overhead - where you can smell the urine and see the trash mounting all around us."
A sick way of dealing with people who have a mental illness, not even portable toilets there or anything.
Unfortunately so many people would either condone this or say "that's not bad enough".
They have ended up living in a makeshift tent city under one of the causeway's bridges because of a local law which prohibits those who have sexually abused minors from living within 2,500 ft (760m) of anywhere where children congregate, such as schools, libraries and parks.
After the local laws were enacted, Florida's correctional authorities found there was virtually nowhere else for these people to live and began dropping them off at the bridge.
Some of them have even been issued with driving licences with the bridge listed as their home address.
"We have people living together with mental and physical illnesses in an environment where people can't possibly sleep because of the cars going by overhead - where you can smell the urine and see the trash mounting all around us."
A sick way of dealing with people who have a mental illness, not even portable toilets there or anything.
Unfortunately so many people would either condone this or say "that's not bad enough".