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The state of Virginia is finding out the hard way that keeping sex offenders committed indefinitely is a little more costly than they bargained for. Matter of fact, it’s so much more costly than they planned they’re considering [ http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/05/26/2236647/va-could-privatize-costly-sex.html | privatizing the program ].

It’s costing the state $97,000 per year per inmate who is civilly committed, and the facility they use for this purpose is running out of room. So they’ve worked up a plan to double-bunk the already overcrowded facility so they can fit more sex offenders inside.

The inmates who are already committed to the facility have threatened to sue if VA follows through with their plan.

“The conditions here at V.C.B.R. are now deplorable, and to double bunk them would make conditions uninhabitable and miserable” and unconstitutional six “residents” wrote to VA Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and The Associated Press. Especially considering they served their time!

We’ll go right ahead and agree that there needs to be a better way to deal with repeat sex offenders than the usual

prison-and-release rehabilitation program we’ve used for so long. But we’re kinda not sure locking them up and throwing away the key is the way to go. People keep yelling “Think of the children!” but we [italic|are] thinking of the children, whose school budgets keep getting cut a little more each year all over the country because of all the thinking of the children we’ve done.

Your Religion and How it Affects Your Sex

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