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Confining State's Sex Predators: Is It Still a Cost-Effective Solution?

By "eAdvocate"

12-26-2010 Washington: MCNEIL ISLAND The picture on William Deaville?s purple photo badge shows a younger man with amber hair, a glimpse into the past of the now-grayed 44-year-old who?s lived in secure confinement for 21 years. Deaville has been on McNeil Island in south Puget Sound since the state opened the Special Commitment Center (SCC), an indefinite holding facility for those found to meet the statutory definition of a ?sexually violent predator.? The Bremerton man, like the other 280 residents there, served his time for a sex crime ? in his case sexually abusing boys ? in state prison. But when he was about to get out, the state attorney general?s office filed paperwork in Kitsap County Superior Court to have him committed indefinitely...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on December 26, 2010 (boomark / email).