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No place to live, sex offenders kept in prison
By courier-journal.com- Andrew Wolfson
Published: 08/07/2015

Michael Blaine Wolfe III served out every bit of his eight-year sentence for sexual abuse and should have been released from prison more than a year ago.

But he is still behind bars and could be for up to four more years, with state taxpayers footing the bill for his medical expenses and incarceration.

The reason: He was charged with violating the terms of his conditional release from prison before he even got out, because he couldn’t find a legal place to live as a sex offender.

Wolfe, 40, who suffered brain damage in an accident as a teenager and uses a wheelchair, needs nursing care, and the Corrections Department says none of the 310 places it has contacted to house him has been willing to accept him. Only 15 said they would even consider it, the department says.

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