Many young people with identified needs require more intensive and specialized treatment. Specialized residential treatment includes programs designed specifically for the treatment of serious violent offenders, sex offenders, chemically dependent offenders, offenders with mental health impairments, and offenders with mental retardation.
Youth receive a comprehensive clinical assessment when first entering the TJJD system. From this assessment youth are matched their specialized treatment needs and each need is given a ranking and priority for addressing these needs. The Giddings State School operates a Capital and Serious Violent Offender Treatment Program for youths that are committed for murder, capital murder, and if the offense involved the use of a weapon or deadly force.
The program helps these young people connect feelings associated with their violent behavior and to identify alternative ways to respond when faced with risky situations in the future.
Participants in this program are required to reenact their crimes and to play the role of both perpetrator and victim. The Giddings Capital and Serious Violent Offender Program has gained worldwide attention and been featured on several national news programs. Research shows that participation in this program reduced the likelihood of being re-incarcerated for any offense by 55 percent, and for a felony offense, by 43 percent.
Specialized treatment for sex offenders is provided at three TJJD institutions. The offender is required to remain in prison until reaching their mandatory supervision release date or their discharge date. Texas Council on Offenders with Mental Impairments TCOMI is a member collaborative council that addresses the needs of juvenile and adult offenders with mental illness, mental retardation or developmental disabilities.
Special Needs Parole is an early parole, with Board of Pardons and Parole approval, permitted for offenders who are elderly, terminally ill, physically handicapped, mentally ill or mentally retarded. Sex Offender SO are offenders who have been sentenced for committing a sexual offense, have a past conviction for an offense involving sexually deviant behavior, have displayed sexually deviant behavior in the commission of any offense, or have admitted committing sexually deviant behavior. Sex offenders require a higher degree of supervision than other offenders do.
Sex Offender Treatment Program SOTP has for its primary goal to reduce the rate of re-offense and move the participant toward a more pro-social lifestyle. They also offer education and life skills training. They may offer vocational training and hour supervision. Releasee is a convicted felon released from incarceration to serve a portion of their sentence under supervision in the community on parole or mandatory supervision.
A releasee reports on a regular schedule to a Parole Officer, and must obey specific conditions of release until the original sentence is completed. Releasees shall be tested for the major drugs of abuse in any combination deemed appropriate by the parole officer. The major drugs of abuse include, but are not limited to, amphetamines, barbiturates, cocaine, marijuana, and opiates. A periodic evaluation shall determine the necessity to change testing patterns and illicit substances to be tested for.
Restitution Center is a community-based correction facility that provides hour close supervision and a highly structured environment for non-violent felons. Offenders are confined to the center except to go to their place of employment, to perform community service work, or to attend education or rehabilitation programs. Diversion Programs DP provide effective alternatives to sending nonviolent offenders to prison.
These programs offer literacy training, substance abuse treatment and other rehabilitative services to offenders on community supervision. Therapeutic Community TC is a substance abuse treatment program involving non-punitive treatment modes that result in overcoming addictive behavioral patterns leading to substance abuse.
Programming consists of two months of orientation, three months of intensive structured treatment and one month of aftercare treatment, all of which is provided at the facility.
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