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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Waiting on predator island: Chronic delays drive up cost

"MADHOUSE": The Special Commitment Center on McNeil Island houses 284 of the state's most dangerous sex offenders. For more than a century, the island in south Puget Sound was home to a penitentiary, which the state closed in April 2011.