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| Moving Sex Offenders Saving Millions |
| By northjersey.com |
| Published: 04/06/2010 |
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Taxpayers will save $2.3 million a year when the state moves more than 160 sex offenders — including some of the most notorious from Bergen and Passaic counties – out of a Hudson County facility to another in Woodbridge, corrections officials said. Buy this photoThe state Department of Corrections was court-ordered last year to vacate the civil commitment facility in Kearny that it rented from Hudson County and find a new location. The 162 residents there will be transferred to a larger building at East Jersey State Prison in Woodbridge, an operational move that "will translate into real dollar savings without compromising public safety," Corrections Commissioner Gary Lanigan said in a statement last week. The transfer once again brings light to the civil commitment of some sex offenders, who are held indefinitely in "special treatment units" even after they have completed their prison terms. The state keeps 412 convicted sex offenders in two civil-commitment facilities – 162 in Kearny and 250 in an annex at the Avenel Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center in Woodbridge. Among those is Raymond Alves, who was sentenced to 47 years for raping a teenage girl in Fair Lawn in 1976. He completed his term in 2000 but was placed in civil commitment after a brief release. Read More. |
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