5-26-2011 Virginia:
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia officials are considering privatizing a costly and rapidly expanding program that indefinitely detains sex offenders who've already served their prison sentences.
In the meantime, some residents at the Burkeville psychiatric facility where they are held are threatening to sue if the state goes through with plans to double-bunk them. A $62 million, 300-bed facility that opened three years ago to house people deemed sexually violent predators is expected to be full as early as July.
Florida-based GEO Care has offered to run Virginia's program. The company promises to double the number of beds at the center without using any extra state funds, among other things.
The state is giving companies until June 2 to submit competing proposals. ..Source.. by Dena Potter
May 26, 2011
Va could privatize sex offender program
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Sounds like someone wants to make some money.
Virginia is so anxious to entomb people into civil commitment that a basset hound could get committed for lifting his leg to a fire hydrant. One has to wonder if that was not the intent of the whole program from the start. Fill the program up ASAP and then farm this money press contract out to their supporters. "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Ronald Reagan.
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