The village of sex offenders

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Set among endless sugar-cane fields in a remote part of southern Florida, Restoration Destination is a community made up of registered sex offenders. Created by a Christian ministry as a response to state laws which ban them from living close to where children gather, it is now home to more than 100 men who have been placed on Florida’s sex offenders register for life. Through therapy, counselling and support, Restoration Destination aims to reduce their likelihood of reoffending and help them reintegrate into society. Journalist Conor Garrett goes to Restoration Destination to ask if the men who live there deserve a second chance. ***This programme contains interviews with convicted sex offenders, references to sex crimes and other scenes which listeners may find upsetting***

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0:00.0	This program contains interviews with convicted sex offenders, references to sex crimes, and
0:05.2	other scenes which listeners may find upsetting.
0:08.4	Everybody knows we're here.
0:09.9	They're glad we're here.
0:11.0	They don't want us in the city living there.
0:13.6	Yeah.
0:13.9	You know, and you can't play with them.
0:15.8	What do the locals think?
0:17.2	They think they were monsters.
0:19.3	Where should people convicted of sex crimes be allowed to live?
0:22.8	Can they be rehabilitated?
0:24.8	Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
0:27.8	I'm Connor Garrett, and for this episode,
0:30.1	I'm in restoration destination in Southern Florida,
0:33.5	a community of registered sex offenders.
0:36.7	It is kind of in the middle of nowhere.
0:39.1	Yes, it is.
0:40.5	Just this big long road beside us,
0:43.0	and that's the sugar cane plantation.
0:45.3	Oh yeah, there's probably 20 square miles of sugarcane.
0:49.5	Really these vast expanses of fields, flat, and this place.
0:55.8	The nearest town is three miles away, the nearest city more than ten.
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