New Jersey corrections officers, the mother of
Megan Kanka and former Sen. Peter Inverso have teamed up
to launch a pre-emptive strike to warn the public that the
state is considering privatizing the sexual violent
predator program.
"I cannot believe that after all of our efforts to
prevent sex offenders from preying on our children, we
would hand custody to a private company in order to cut
corners," said Kanka, a Hamilton resident who
pushed for the state's sexual offender notification
program after her 7-year-old daughter Megan was killed
in 1994 by a convicted sex offender who lived across the
street.
The state's sexual violent predator program, enacted
in 1999, incarcerates and treats sex offenders after their
prison sentences end be cause the courts deem them too
dangerous to release to the public.
