Cost to house a sexually violent predator? $226,429 a year - The San Diego Union-Tribune
Print Sometime before Oct. 24, if all goes according to plan, Allen Fields will move into a rented three-bedroom home on five acres in the backcountry community of Campo — a move that will be unwelcome by neighbors, closely watched by a team of experts, and expensive to taxpayers. Fields, 58, is the most recent sexually violent predator to win release from a state hospital to live on his own, but under supervision. It won’t come cheap, either: the state Department of Hospitals said that the average cost for supervision of sexually violent predators like Fields is $226,429 per predator, pe...
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