At last night's Council of Councils meeting, Mr. Kerry Pribnow from the Department of Corrections gave a presentation about sex offenders and the Great Falls PreRelease Center.
He has been in discussions with the local center to THINK about accepting only Tier I and Tier II Cascade County sex offenders. Currently, the center does not accept any sex offenders and the Department of Corrections cannot force them to. It is up to the PreRelease board to decide the Center's direction.
His argument to accepting these lower risk offenders is that they are, once released from prison, coming back to where they are from. The big problem though is most of them have not received any kind of rehab while in prison because of the long waiting lists, and their sentences are not long enough, like Tier III offenders, to get off those waiting lists.
He would like to see the local center offer rehab opportunities with very close supervision.
Needless to say, those at the meeting were very much divided in their thoughts.
What do you think?
He has been in discussions with the local center to THINK about accepting only Tier I and Tier II Cascade County sex offenders. Currently, the center does not accept any sex offenders and the Department of Corrections cannot force them to. It is up to the PreRelease board to decide the Center's direction.
His argument to accepting these lower risk offenders is that they are, once released from prison, coming back to where they are from. The big problem though is most of them have not received any kind of rehab while in prison because of the long waiting lists, and their sentences are not long enough, like Tier III offenders, to get off those waiting lists.
He would like to see the local center offer rehab opportunities with very close supervision.
Needless to say, those at the meeting were very much divided in their thoughts.
What do you think?
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