Okla. To Build Sex Offender Nursing Home

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Oklahoma is a step closer to building the nation's first long-term care facility exclusively for sex offenders.

A nonprofit group, A Perfect Cause, said there are currently 30 sex offenders living in Oklahoma nursing homes. The group hopes that moving offenders out of those facilities will make them safer for other residents.

"The Department of Corrections talked about there being thousands of people moving from the criminal justice system who are 65 or older in the coming years," said Wes Bledsoe, of A Perfect Cause.

Bledsoe's group said it has calculated more than 60 murders, rapes and assaults committed by criminal offenders while living in nursing homes throughout the country.

Gov. Brad Henry signed a bill into law last July that required the state to build a separate nursing home for sex offenders. The Oklahoma Health Department is preparing to seek bids to run the facility, but also wants to know how those bidders would plan to operate it.

"The proposal will include provisions for heightened, 24-hour security to protect the residents and the public," said Henry Hartsell, of Protective Health Services.

State health officials hope to begin accepting bids next month and will pick a winner by February.

Once the nursing home is built, it will be used as an example to other health departments around the country.

60 Murders, rapes, and assaults... Ok, identify the people who did it. Were these murderers, and rapists previously convicted of similar crimes? Were they patients or staff?

See, he sort of 'forgets' to bring that little point out. He leaves it hanging so that he allows you to believe all of this were due to Sex Offenders. I call Bullshit.

How does this 'protect' the public? Advocates for harsh treatment of Sex Offenders always seem to have information based on nothing more then their bullshit opinion that they are more than willing to spew across the airwaves, in print and on the Internet, yet noone will ask them where they get their information. Why is that? Are the reporters in on it too? We all know the Media has a horse in this race too. No sensational stories, readers and watchers go down the tubes. Publish information that is truthful, and amazingly everyone knows. It becomes a a non-story. It isn't large majorities of Sex Offenders, it is actually a very small percentage.. Oh no, no more headlines.. No more free grants to John Walsh and the pro-Fem hate groups....

Why is it that the experts are all people that had a hard time passing grade school, and they never actually talk to the people that went to college and studied SO's? where are the therapists here, those are the real experts.