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The Virginia State Crime Commission endorsed tougher punishments this week for violent sex offenders and improved efforts to track such felons once they are released from prison.
The panel recommended laws that include a minimum 25-year prison term for a violent sexual assault against a child and a mandatory life sentence for a second offense.
The commission endorsed efforts that would make it a crime for convicted sex offenders released from prison to work on school or child-care center property and would hire 71 state troopers to enforce the new laws. The recommendations will be put before the General Assembly next month as part of four bills.
Commission officials estimate that the new initiatives would cost $31 million in fiscal 2007 and 2008, largely to hire extra state police officers and staff in the Virginia attorney general's office.
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Compiled from reports by staff writers Henri E. Cauvin, Del Quentin Wilber, David Nakamura, Nick Anderson, Ernesto Londoo, Tim Craig, Michael D. Shear and Chris L. Jenkins and the Associated Press.
