(The Center Square) - California is spending $1.7 million per year housing and treating each “sexually violent predator” discharged from state mental hospitals and in the process of transitioning to
(The Center Square) - California is spending $1.7 million per year housing and treating each “sexually violent predator” discharged from state mental hospitals and in the process of transitioning to the community under care and supervision from a third-party contractor, a new state audit found.
Wow, $1,700,000 per person per year sounds rather astronomical…
Between fiscal years 2003-2004 and 2023-2024 California paid almost $93 million to Liberty Healthcare to house, treat, supervise, and monitor 56 individuals the state has designated as “sexually violent predators,”
OK, that sounds more reasonable…
$93,000,000 / (20 * 56) = $83,036
So which is it, $1.7M or $83K? Because that’s a rather substantial difference.
Am I missing something here? I can’t find any sources in the article. Did they just make the first figure up?
Wow, $1,700,000 per person per year sounds rather astronomical…
OK, that sounds more reasonable…
So which is it, $1.7M or $83K? Because that’s a rather substantial difference.
Am I missing something here? I can’t find any sources in the article. Did they just make the first figure up?
Probably. Same way they called them violent sex predators. They aren’t trying to contribute to a conversation.
My sense is that they don’t think there is such a thing as rehabilitation and would prefer execution. But that’s my personal smell test.
That $1.7M is the total divided by the individual, BTW. That really isn’t an outrageous cost over the time frame though.
Wow, you’re right. That’s an incredibly misleading headline.
Yeah with the actual work that’s happening it’s almost as if the state is paying people to do a job.
93,000,000$÷56= 1,660,714.29$
Here is the report refranced as a source for this article: https://www.auditor.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2023-130-Report.pdf