this is why our jail system fucking sucks...people with mental diseases and the like get sent to prison...however all prison does is confine, it's not a source of rehabilitation..so when people get out, they go back to their own lifestyles because they do not know any better.
you are right and wrong at the same time, the current american system for dealing with pedophiles is to lieniant, but there is "rehabilitation" .... if it even is a mental disorder, just like any other there are treatments... some more harsh than others.. there's the counseling and such, which can work (tho with adults even after severe therapy i think it's still like 90% that do it again, but there's still those 10%) then there's drugs... they basicly neuter him/her and pretty much strip them of their sexual desire... anyone that does it again after that has serious problems becuase for it be an "illness" there has to be desire, and if you've had your desire ripped away, then it's no more about sexual pleasure, then it becomes something even more sinister... something i can't even put in words... yes it's sad that someone caught selling crack can go away for even longer then a pedophile, it truely is... imo it really doesn't help when all these peopel who have desires for kids see others like them, getting caught and getting off on probation.. cuz then it's like "hey they did it and only got probation, nothing bad will happen" and then there goes the fear of "oh god i can't i might get put in prison and ass raped daily by bubba" but even that isn't really there, cuz they keep sex offenders far from all the other prisoners... as someone on this site already said once.. they are set apart from everyone else, rewarded for snitching on others and then released on good behavior half way through their sentance...