In south Florida lies a small village with a population of around 200 people that serves as a safe haven for registered sex offenders.
Half of the residents in Miracle Village are sex offenders but the village also has families living there, including children.
The tiny isolated community surrounded by sugar cane fields was founded by Pastor Dick Witherow in 2009 in a bid to help sex offenders reintegrate into society.
It is more than two miles away from the nearest town of Pahokee which is home to more sex offenders per capita than any city in Florida, according to First Coast News.
The village, made up of a small cluster of well-kept bungalows, was created so that registered sex offenders would have somewhere to live. Under Florida’s state laws, none of them can live within 1,000 feet of a school, daycare centre, park or playground.
