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Health & Fitness

DHS pays high cost to house, bus sex offenders, audit says

By Kirsten Adshead | Wisconsin Reporter

MADISON – A sex offender, required by law to be monitored and driven to activities, boards a bus.

The bus service, having contracted with the Department of Corrections, gets paid $30.87 an hour.

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That same bus service, having contracted with the Department of Health Services to do the same thing, gets $69.89 an hour.

That’s not a hypothetical.

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It’s fact.

And it’s real examples like that have legislators – Democrats and Republicans – looking at DHS’s program for supervising the release of sexual offenders into the community and thinking, “Hmm, something’s not right.”

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