The sheer idocy of a democrat dominated government. Speaks for itself.
Thursday, September 1, 2005 - Page updated at 12:00 AM
Costly facility for 1 high-risk sex offender
By Jonathan Martin
Seattle Times staff reporter
ALAN BERNER / THE SEATTLE TIMES
Video monitors keep track of activities
at the new DSHS sex-offender facility
on South Spokane Street. The building
has high security walls, 17 employees
and a $1.6 million annual budget.
ALAN BERNER / THE SEATTLE TIMES
The private resident rooms are small,
spare and have no windows. The state
plans to open the new building in the
Sodo area next week.
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State pioneered sex-offender law
Twenty-five surveillance cameras, 17 state employees, 12-foot security walls and a $1.6 million annual budget — all for one high-risk sex offender.
That is the reality for Washington's new six-bed halfway house for "sexually violent predators" in Seattle's Sodo district, which is preparing to open its 1,800-pound magnetic-locked doors next week for a single resident.
The Department of Social and Health Services declined to identify the man.
Whoever it is, he will have finished at least five years of sex-offender treatment, and will be under 24-hour watch and GPS surveillance as he attempts to find work, therapy and — if he chooses — to occasionally pursue recreational activities such as fishing.
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