Costly facility for 1 high-risk sex offender

Twenty-five surveillance cameras, 17 state employees, 12-foot security walls and a $1.6 million annual budget — all for one high-risk sex offender.
That is the reality for Washington's new six-bed halfway house for "sexually violent predators" in Seattle's Sodo district, which is preparing to open its 1,800-pound magnetic-locked doors next week for a single resident.

From The Seattle Times—(for full text of article by Jonathan Martin, Seattle Times staff reporter)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002463421_sexoffender01m.html