That sounds like a lot, but what’s the alternative? Keep them locked up after they’ve served their time? Don’t give them treatment and risk them offending again?
Is that all it takes to get free housing?
By “that,” are you talking about the years of imprisonment they had already gone through?
Alternate headline for the same article:
“Wildly successful California program treating violent sex predators has 100% rate of any preventing crime of violence or sex on California citizens”
Here’s the supporting statement from that same article:
"While the program has, on its face, been successful — only two participants, or 4%, reoffended during their supervision under Liberty Healthcare, one of whom was found to possess child pornography and the other failed a reporting requirement, compared to a 19% recidivism rate for those who were unconditionally released from state mental hospitals. Given that those given conditional release under the supervision of Liberty Healthcare are more of a threat than those with unconditional release, the 4% recidivism rate appears to be an improvement over the status quo. "
Yeah this is a bullshit article.
(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) = $83,036So 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.
Corrections and Clarifications
An earlier version of this article misstated the amount of money spent by the state of California on each violent sex predator.
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
