SD10 - Report of the Department of Corrections: Response to Senate Joint Resolution No. 158 Requesting the Department of Corrections to Consider Establishing a Treatment Program for Incarcerated Sexual Assault Offenders

  • Published: 1980
  • Author: Department of Corrections
  • Enabling Authority: Senate Joint Resolution 158 (Regular Session, 1979)

Executive Summary:

House Joint Resolution 158 of the 1979 session of the General Assembly requested that the Department of Corrections explore the feasibility of establishing a treatment program for incarcerated sexual assault  offenders within Virginia's Correctional system with assistance from the Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation and the Virginia State Crime Commission. The study was expanded to include  community needs, as well as the need for differential treatment of incarcerated sexual assault offenders both juvenile and adult.