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| Short-term housing for sex offenders success |
| By Statesman Journal |
| Published: 07/20/2007 |
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POLK, OR - It's not often we columnist types admit to being remiss, so enjoy this modicum of mea culpa. More than four years ago, I started scolding Polk County officials in this column for their unwillingness to find transitional housing for post-prison sex offenders. I blistered them early and often for steadfastly refusing to use taxpayer funds on an alternative to paroled sex offenders sleeping on bus stops in West Salem and in parking lots downtown. Admittedly, it was not my harangues that forced the folks in Dallas to seek a solution, but rather a direct edict from the state -- something along the lines of "do it or lose millions in community-corrections funding." But solve the problem they did; and to date, I've not said a word about it. That's changing here and now. Open about a month now, the short-term housing for sex offenders in Polk County is proving a success. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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