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| Sex-predator treatment costs $141,400 per year |
| By gazettextra.com - Steven Walters |
| Published: 05/21/2013 |
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WISCONSIN - At an average cost of more than $141,400 per year, Sexually Violent Persons—SVPs or sex “predators”—are among the most expensive patients your tax dollars pay to lock up, feed, keep healthy and treat. For example, that $141,400 is more than four times the average cost to house an adult in a state prison for a year. And, last Wednesday, 351 SVPs were at the Sand Ridge Secure Treatment Center in Mauston. If those 351 stay at the facility this year—and officials say most stay an average of between seven and eight years—the cost to care for them will be $49.6 million. It will actually be more because $141,400 was the average cost of a Sand Ridge patient last year, according to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau. Why is the cost so high? Read More. |
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