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An In-State Treatment Facility For Registered Sex Offenders Still Just A Pipe Dream

By "eAdvocate"

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12-22-2009 Connecticut:With the July 2007 slayings of a Cheshire mother and her two daughters fresh on their minds, legislators moved quickly last year to toughen up the state's criminal justice system.But one of their reforms ? creation of a residential treatment facility with a range of services for sex offenders on parole or probation ? never happened, even though it was part of a bill that passed by wide margins in both the state House of Representatives and the Senate.Now, a three-time convicted rapist ? considered so dangerous and untreatable he was denied admission to sex offender programs in Connecticut and seven other states only two years ago ? will have nowhere to go when he is released from prison on Christmas Eve.Instead, 52-year-old Ransome Lee Moody will be waiting in line for a bed at Immanuel Baptist Homeless Shelter in New Haven, a place where indigent offenders who have done their time often go for housing when there are no other options...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on December 22, 2009 (boomark / email).