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Sometime before Oct. 24, if all goes according to plan, Allen Fields will move into a rented three-bedroom home on five acres in the backcountry community of Campo a move that will be unwelcome by neighbors, closely watched by a team of experts, and expensive to taxpayers.
Fields, 58, is the most recent sexually violent predator to win release from a state hospital to live on his own, but under supervision. It won’t come cheap, either: the state Department of Hospitals said that the average cost for supervision of sexually violent predators like Fields is $226,429 per predator, per year.
The job of keeping watch on Fields is not done by the state, but a private company based in Pennsylvania. Liberty Healthcare Corp. has had the exclusive contract since 2003 to administer the supervision and treatment program for men like Fields for the entire state.