Bobby Jindal for U.S. President

[Wyatt Lee]

Last week we visited Shreveport, and later Alexandria, to announce our goals for cracking down on sex offenders during this year’s legislative session. Last year we took some important steps forward in this process, but there is still much work left to be done.

We have outlined seven steps to make our state’s families safer. First, violent offenders will submit to mandatory psychiatric evaluation after the conclusion of their prison sentence and parole terms. And, as the Shreveport Times reported, “If a psychiatric evaluator determined the offender was likely to commit a crime again, the change would mean a district attorney could request indefinite, forced evaluation of that person until he or she was deemed to be no longer a threat.”