Miracle Village

City of Refuge
Nickname: 
Miracle Village
CountryUnited States
StateFlorida
CountyPalm Beach
Founded1964
Government
 • TypeOperated by Matthew 25: Ministries
 • Executive DirectorTed Rodarm
Population
 • Estimate 
(2018)
200
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)

Miracle Village (officially City of Refuge since 2014)[1] is a community on Muck City Road, about three miles (4.8 km) east of Pahokee, Florida, that serves as a haven for registered sex offenders. It is located within one of the most isolated and poorest parts of Palm Beach County.[2][3] The site was chosen because of its isolation given that the sex offender residence restrictions do not apply.

  1. ^ Hu, Caitlin (March 3, 2015). "110 convicted sex offenders live in harmony in this small Florida town". Quartz. Archived from the original on November 15, 2017. Retrieved December 9, 2017.
  2. ^ Fossett, Katelyn (December 7, 2017). "Inside the Remote, Little-Known Sanctuary for Sex Offenders". Politico. Archived from the original on December 10, 2017. Retrieved January 20, 2018. Photographer Charles Ommanney lived at Miracle Village for a week with the residents and tried to capture what it was like to live on the other side of America's sex offender laws.
  3. ^ Reimann, Marina (July 8, 2015). "6 Of The Weirdest Tiny Towns In The United States". cracked.com. Archived from the original on January 17, 2018. Retrieved January 25, 2018. Among the new residents were men convicted of looking at child pornography, young guys who had underage girlfriends, guys who exposed themselves in public, a guy who got caught urinating in public, and actual child molesters. Oh, and one woman sex offender. Just one.