Miracle Village, an isolated community that houses convicted sex offenders in Florida, USA is one rare village you might have ever heard of. Interestingly, the village only houses rapists and sex offenders.
For those living in Miracle Village, reentering society is extremely difficult. They are publicly defined by their mistakes, stripped of emotional acceptance, and living in shared quarters of mutual sufferance. For many of them, this will be the rest of their life, living in a state of perpetual punishment.
There are young guys who were convicted for being in consensual teenage relationships—one guy was 18 and his girlfriend 16. Then there was someone convicted of possessing child pornography, which is illegal regardless of how the file ends up on the person’s computer.
There are some men who had physically molested a minor, although no one in the village was a “diagnosed” pedophile—they don’t accept serial rapists, pedophiles, or people that have committed violent crimes.
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