WA: Legislators Furious Over Re-Entry Housing Facility for Sex Offenders
Since 2017 Joe Fields has operated Joe’s Place in Walla Walla, where as many as 9 registered mostly low-level sex offenders are voluntarily housed. That facility began just after creation of the state’s STAR Program or Succesful Transition and Re-Entry Program. Now, Kennewick Police and 8th. District Legislators have released information the Fields has applied for and purchased a home in Kennewick to begin a similar program.
The 8th District Reps are furious that they were notified about the project by the Department of Social and Health Services after the home was purchased, and the process was under way.
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I lived in a similar housing situation for four years after my mom passed away. Without which I would have been homeless. Now I live on a famous mountain in another state and I get to see my grandkids grow up.
Transitional housing whether temporary or permanent is the difference between life and death for alot of us. How anyone with a modicum of intelligence doesn’t see or most likely refuses to admit they see that the forever punishment of the registry and the added bonus of banishment is nothing less than job security for fear mongering politicians as well as the legalized whipping boy those that have that insatiable need is beyond me.
Okay I committed horrible crimes. I faced my punishment. If I shoulda got life then I woulda got life.
WA: Legislators Furious Over Re-Entry Housing Facility for Sex Offenders.
Furious? Really?
In the imortal words of Elon Musk “Go ..
The majority of the comments here are from pedophile apologists.
Mass hysteria is a way of life, in this trash we call a nation. Mankind is showing their stripes, and it’s pathetic.
Law makers, law enforcement, and other law officials use politics and feelings instead of facts and reality to fearmonger to appeal to their voter base. Just leave people alone and let them live their lives.
As a former Washingtonain, From Richland, Part of the Tri-cities, And a resident of Seattle for many years. These programs for men, who have the lowest rate of new crimes comited. I would say to these communities “These Offenders ARE coming to your communities. Are you going to help them reintergrate and NOT reoffend/ Or are you going to throw up road block and Take any opportuity from them, thus leaving them the only option, being dehumanized, And turning into the mosters you have made them. THINK hard about now you see them. Your actions Dictate IF they reintergrate and help your community, Or your leave them no jobs to work, no houses to live in, a desperate homless man may touch YOUR family.
You’re absolutely wrong.
The Walla Walla facility isn’t just low level offenders, no matter how they spin it. They have Bryant James Jordan who raped a disabled woman, then raped a 6-month old baby.
The Kennewick facility is for releases from McNeil Island of Sexually Violent Predators – the highest risk who have been civilly committed because they are legally defined as “more likely than not to engage in acts of predatory sexual violence if not confined”.
Those rehabilitation statistics are dismal. HALF of them had violations of conditions of release in a single year and nearly half of those had to be returned to complete confinement at the island (DSHS report to the legislature 2024).
Those are not acceptable numbers for community risk.
Isn’t this a little bit like saying it’s OK to have an alcoholic live right next to the bar. It’s not about the community having open arms. These men should have opportunities for employment but housing them in a neighborhood with children, swimming pools and grade schools, It’s too big of an opportunity to reoffend. it’s like setting up a coyote den next to the lambing sheds, a disaster in the making.