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"Cost of sex offender program shocks lawmakers"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this interesting local article from Virginia.  Here are excerpts: Lawmakers expressed shock Friday over the exponentially rising cost of a program to keep some sex offenders locked up after they complete their criminal sentences. The annual operating cost of Virginia's Sexually Violent Predator Program is projected to hit $32 million next year - more than a tenfold increase in eight years. The General Assembly created the program in 1998 to keep sex offenders deemed likely to re-offend off the streets after they finish their criminal sentences. The process is known as civil commitment. The 300-bed Virginia Center for Behavioral Rehabilitation in Nottoway County, built just two years ago for $62 million, will be filled by this fall, the House Appropriations Committee was told Friday...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 15, 2011 (boomark / email).