Costly facility for 1 high-risk sex offender

The Seattle Times ^ | Thursday, September 1, 2005 | Jonathan Martin

[SeattleNeedsHelp]

Costly facility for 1 high-risk sex offender

By Jonathan Martin Seattle Times staff reporter

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.

[Archidamus]

Should've just shot him.

[vpintheak]

What a gigantic waste of money. Nueter and lobotomize these people and be done with it. And the Rat congresswoman needs to spend some time alone with these "sexually violent" inmates so she can pull her head out.

[ncountylee]

No stairs to fall down?

[okie01]

If these people are that risky, how is it that any authority could even consider re-introducing them into the public?

Are these people not clearly "throw away the key" types?

[11Bush]

No stairs to fall down?

and fall up, and fall down, and fall up...repeat as necessary.

[Thebaddog]

State of Illinois has a sex offender website where you can type in any zip-code to see if an offender lives nearby. The number of sex offenders in Chicago zips is alarming. That facility looks too comfortable and too small.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Give me a Letter of Marque and I'll shoot the scumbag for $100, plus expenses.

[T Minus Four]

I'll do it for free and pay my own expenses.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Dang. Competition already. :O)

[singfreedom]

That's what happens when you don't have life sentences (or death) for habitual Level III sexual predators. If the legislature would enact such, you wouldn't need to worry about what happens when they get out.

[sionnsar]

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[holyscroller]

"In 1999, federal Judge William Dwyer ordered DSHS to build an off-island halfway house."

Dwyer was a pervert himself. In Washington you can also find out how many perverts live in your neighborhood, for whatever good that does you.

Also, I live in suburban Seattle, but have never even heard of the SODO district. Where is it? Sounds like they came up with a code name for where they're releasing him so the public doesn't panic (or find him and he accidentally disappears).

[SeattleNeedsHelp]

SODO stands for "South of the Dome" - as in the late King Dome

[Made In The USA]

Shouldn't Michael Jackson just pay for this himself?

[vox humana]

Why is anyone surprised that something like this happened in the Peoples Republic of Seattle?

[Knute]

Hmmmm... $1.6 million annual budget

{OR}

A 50 cent bullet?

Let the taxpayers decide!

[Vigilanteman]

He can make a one-way trip up the stairs and wear one of these.

[ncountylee]

Bravo!

[grey_whiskers]

[Photo of noose deleted].

Anti-liberal, anti-rapist-molestor NUCLEAR SARCASM TORPEDO ARMED. (duck and FIRE!!!)

The one case in which you want a sex offender to be "well-hung".