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Minnesota DOC Releases Study on Impact of Prison-Based Sex Offender Treatment

Loaded on April 15, 2011 by Matthew Clarke published in Prison Legal News April, 2011, page 38
Filed under: Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Mental Health, Sex Offender Treatment. Location: Minnesota.
by Matt Clarke

In March 2010 the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) released a report on the impact of in-prison sex offender treatment programs on recidivism rates. The results of the study “suggest that prison-based treatment in Minnesota produces a significant, albeit modest, reduction in sex offender recidivism.”

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