Composición alergénica de sustitutos lácteos

Colorado

Colorado Department of Corrections

Contact: Peggy Heil, L.C.S.W.

SOTMP Director

Colorado Department of Corrections

P.O. Box 300

Canon City, CO 81215-0300

Phone:

(719) 269-5667

Fax:

(719) 269-5640

E-mail:

[email protected]

Program Administrator:

Peggy Heil, SOTMP Director

Program Summary

The Colorado Sex Offender Treatment and Monitoring Program (SOTMP) is a component of the Risk Assessment Management (RAM) Program, established by administrative decision at the Colorado

Department of Corrections. Legislation passed in 1992 created the Sex Offender Management Board, which is responsible for setting standards and guidelines for the assessment, evaluation, treatment, and behavioral monitoring of sex offenders throughout the criminal justice system.

The RAM Program is designed to identify and provide specialized treatment and supervision for sex offenders, in the form of a service continuum throughout incarceration and parole. Treatment programming for incarcerated sex offenders is provided through the SOTMP. For sex offenders on parole, continued intensive treatment as well as specialized supervision are coordinated through specially trained RAM officers, approved community treatment providers, and polygraphers.

Inmates who are amenable to treatment and meet the SOTMP requirements generally enter the program at 2 years or less to Parole Eligibility Date (PED), and remain in the program until release. Sex offenders must participate and progress in treatment in order to receive favorable parole consideration. Legislation enacted in 1998 mandates lifetime supervision—which requires treatment as well as intensive supervision— for offenders convicted of certain sex crimes.

A staff of 39 provides treatment for up to 230 sex offenders at any given time at four different facilities. One unit at the Arrowhead Correctional Center is dedicated to a 96-bed residential therapeutic community for sex offenders. Another unit in Arrowhead houses a drug and alcohol therapeutic community.

The SOTMP is cognitive behavioral in orientation, and is centered on the following sequence of groups:

Core Curriculum 18 hours (minimum)

This group is a prerequisite for Phase I, focusing on thinking errors, anger management, and stress management. The group is offered at most DOC facilities.

Transition Open-ended

The transition group is designed to prepare sex offenders for participation in the Phase I group. The program addresses the needs of three different groups:

1) Sex offenders who volunteer for treatment but have more than 8 years to PED. 1) Sex offenders who have completed the Core Curriculum and are on the waiting list for

transfer to the Fremont Correctional Facility (FCF) for Phase I.

1) Sex offenders who may meet the criteria for Phase I, but their commitment to change and to treatment is questionable.

This group is offered at Buena Vista Correctional Facility and Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility.

Pre-Treatment 13 weeks

The pre-treatment group is designed to break down the denial systems for those offenders who are not amenable for Phase I. This group is also available for offenders who have more than 8 years to PED. The pre-treatment group is offered at Sterling Correctional Facility.

Phase I 6 months

The Phase I therapy group meets 4 times a week to focus on common problem areas for sex offenders — why people commit sex offenses, developing victim empathy, cognitive restructuring, sex offense cycles, relapse prevention, sex education, sex roles, social skills, and relationships.

Phase I is available at Fremont Correctional Facility, Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility, Colorado Women’s Correctional Facility, and San Carlos Correctional Facility (adjunct). The DOC also plans to offer Phase I at the Sterling Correctional Facility and in the Youth Offender System.

Colorado The following adaptations of Phase I cover the same components, but serve special needs

offenders:

Phase IB (Open-ended)

This group, desig ned for inmates who have low intellectual functioning, meets once a week. Phase IC (Open-ended)

This group, designed for sex offenders who are chronically mentally ill, meets twice a week. It is offered at San Carlos Correctional Facility and Fremont Co rrectional Facility.

Phase IE (Open-ended)

This group for Spanish-speaking offenders is offered at Fremont Correctional Facility.

To enter Phase II, participants must successfully complete Phase I and demonstrate motivation to participate in Phase II.

T. C. Readiness Open-ended

Participants in this group have successfully completed Phase I and have been recommended for the therapeutic community at Arrowhead, but either were at Arrowhead but have been regressed for lack of progress in the program, or cannot be transferred for medical, security, or other reasons.

Phase II (Therapeutic Community) Open-ended

Phase II focuses on changing the participant’s distorted thinking and patterns of behavior. Participants also develop a comprehensive personal change contract. The therapeutic community houses sex offenders together in a therapeutic milieu operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Specialized Treatment Formats for Lifetime Supervision of Sex Offenders

Sex offenders sentenced under the Lifetime Supervision Act must serve at least the minimum sentence in prison, and must participate and progress in treatment in order to be considered for parole, or remain in prison for life.

Three different treatment formats give these offenders the opportunity to progress in treatment and be considered for parole within the time period of their minimum sentence. For each format, participants must meet specific requirements to be considered for parole.

Foundation Format Less than 2 year minimum sentence

In this format, offenders participate in a sex offense specific evaluation as well as a group, in order to prepare their sexual histories for confirmation by polygraph.

Modified Format 2 to 6 year minimum sentence

Offenders participate in a sex offense specific evaluation and expanded Phase I group, which includes defining their sexual abuse cycles and preparing their sexual histories for confirmation by polygraph.

Standard Format 6 years or more minimum sentence

Offenders in this format participate in the standard Phase I and Phase II.