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Utah: More Sex Offenders in Prison, Less Treatment Options

By Corey Rayburnyung

As the number of sex offenders in Utah prisons rise, the waiting list for treatment grows longer. From the Salt Lake Tribune:Members of the Judiciary Interim Committee reviewed a report presented by the Utah Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice and Utah Department of Corrections showing a growing number of inmates are in need of the prison's sex offender treatment program. The total number of sex offenders in prison doubled from August 1996 to August 2008, said Chris Mitchell, director of research for CCJJ, and Michael Robinson, a supervising therapist for corrections' Sex Offender Therapy Program. Sex offenders make up about 30 percent of the total inmate population in prison, according to the report. But of 1,923 sex offenders who were incarcerated in August, only 235 were in treatment...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on November 21, 2008 (boomark / email).