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| Alaska Starts Sex Offender Treatment |
| By juneauempire.com |
| Published: 03/05/2010 |
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The Department of Corrections has started the state's first sex offender treatment program in a prison in seven years at the Lemon Creek Correctional Center. There has not been a similar program in Alaska since funding for sex offender treatment was cut in 2003 under former Gov. Frank Murkowski's administration. The Legislature last year approved roughly $200,000 for a pilot program for 24 inmates. "It's a real comprehensive, intensive program and it's meant to run for roughly 18 months," said criminal justice planner Rose Munafo. Fourteen inmates were transferred to Juneau last month and joined 10 offenders already at the prison in a separate secured living unit. The 24 inmates have undergone assessments and began group therapy last week, Munafo said. "We do have offenders coming there that didn't start out in Juneau because for awhile that will be the only institutional program that we have and it's also in the most secure programming facility we have at this point in time," she said. The 14 offenders transferred to Juneau will be sent back to the facilities they came from after completing the program, Munafo said. Read More. |
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