Japan to require day nurseries, schools to block sex offenders from jobs - The Mainichi
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan plans to require day nurseries, kindergartens and schools to use a government system to confirm that those applying to work the

TOKYO (Kyodo) – Japan plans to require day nurseries, kindergartens and schools to use a government system to confirm that those applying to work the

  • lowleveldata@programming.dev
    233·
    1 year ago

    It brings questions like how do you clear your name if you’re once a sex offender? Why do we release those people back to the wild if we do not believe that they can change?

    • HeartyBeast@kbin.social
      21·
      1 year ago

      In the UK the sex offenders register is used to prevent such people working with particularly vulnerable groups. Otherwise, they are ‘back in the wild’ once they have done their sentence

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      3·
      1 year ago

      I mean, they could still work at non-childcare jobs, or at least can here in Canada.

      In general it’s a good point, though. Westerners in particular seem to want their cake and to eat it too. Execution and indefinite incarceration are both inhumane, but they also don’t want a guy who’s openly a rapist anywhere near them in any context. Locally, reformable people are most of the prison population, but I do wonder what I’d do in the shoes of somewhere like El Salvador.