Predator program's future in question

clipped from www.nj.com New Jersey corrections officers, the mother of Megan Kanka and former Sen. Peter Inverso have teamed up to launch a pre-emptive strike to warn the public that the state is considering privatizing the sexual violent predator program. "I cannot believe that after all of our efforts to prevent sex offenders from preying on our children, we would hand custody to a private company in order to cut corners," said Kanka, a Hamilton resident who pushed for the state's sexual offender notification program after her 7-year-old daughter Megan was killed in 1994 by a convicted sex offender who lived across the street. The state's sexual violent predator program, enacted in 1999, incarcerates and treats sex offenders after their prison sentences end be cause the courts deem them too dangerous to release to the public.