Racine County judge rules violent sex offender may be released from supervision and leave state
A violent sex offender from Racine County, Hung N. Tran, 52, has been released from all supervision and is being allowed to live out of state.
This comes amid Racine County finding it increasingly difficult to find homes for offenders who have served their criminal sentence — both in part due to community resistance to having offenders placed in certain neighborhoods and because there are a limited number of landlords willing to house sex offenders. However, those compounding hurdles are not directly related to Tran being released from his Chapter 980 commitment; Chapter 980 refers to the state laws surrounding the commitment of sexually violent people.
When people in the Chapter 980 are released from the custody of the State of Wisconsin, they are required to be released to the county where the crime occurred, and that county is required to secure housing for them.
So this guy committed his crime when he was 22. Did 15 years in prison for the crime he committed, then did additional 8 years in a “civil commitment” facility after that 6 more years in a sex offender treatment program. So the state gets its funding for all this, but when it becomes time to actually help, they tell him sorry it’s to much trouble to find a place for you to live. Apparently Wisconsin fails to grasp Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. If you can’t even hope to have a place to live, how can you ever feel apart of society. Glad he went to Oregon where I hear there is no living restriction as long as you are not on supervision.
Thats the way it should be if the county wants to push all these ordinances making it impossible to find a place to live then the county should have to find you someplace
Once Again, We are using incorrect terms, “A Violent Sex Offender from…”
The beginning of this story is incorrect. Whomever wrote this is incorrect. This person committed in the PAST a crime in which HE was convictED; this was done in the past; so therefore, USE ANOTHER TERM, like former felon, which is abusive but is in the PAST TENSE of the English Language..
Thank You!
There was between one and thousands put on lifetime registration by OAG-02-17.