Sex offenders’ faces to be displayed on billboards
Associated Press in Mississippi
The Guardian
State authorities hope to have as many as 100 boards ready by the summer, showing images of sex offenders who are in prison, particularly those who preyed on minors. The signs will include details of their convictions.
Local official Don Taylor said the adverts were not designed to shame or further penalise offenders, but to combat the state’s “social pathologies”.