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Sex-offender program heavily scrutinized in General Assembly under tight budget

By "eAdvocate"

2-22-2011 Virginia: The House Appropriations subcommittee tabled a Senate version of a sex-offender bill that would have legalized the physical castration of chronic sex offenders before it was eliminated and the entire bill was finally tabled. The General Assembly has been focusing on the sex-offender program in Virginia during this session due to the higher than expected numbers of committed sex-offenders who have raised the costs of the program. In 2008, Virginia finished a $62 million facility at Burkeville to place sex offenders. The facility is apparently already crowded, however. Spokesmen for the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services told the House Appropriations Committee earlier this week that the anticipated 12 new sex-offenders to be added each year was raised to anywhere between 75 and 80...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on February 22, 2011 (boomark / email).