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Just off the highway leading to this woodsy Minnesota town, more than 400 men live behind tall fences topped with razor wire. They spend their days shuffling between meals, group therapy sessions and activities such as painting state park signs. The men are sex offenders who have completed their prison sentences. But because they are still considered dangerous, they have been locked away indefinitely - part of a national trend that began when states were flush with cash. [...]<br>
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The annual costs per offender topped out at $175,000 in New York and $173,000 in California, and averaged $96,000 a year, about double what it would cost to send them to an Ivy League university.<br>
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<i>source: Article < Sexual predator treatment squeezes budgets - 'They had no idea 10 years ago ... what this program was going to cost' > by Martiga Lohn (Associated Press); www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37819608/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts; msnbc.com; 21 June 2010</i>

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