Rehabilitation Programs Division

Sex Offender Rehabilitation Programs

To enhance public safety by providing sex offender evaluation, education, and treatment.

Programs

Sex Offender Education Program (SOEP) consists of a four-month curriculum to assist sex offenders determined to pose a lower re-offense risk or who may be releasing to a lengthy term of supervision. This curriculum is provided in a didactic format, providing information on a variety of topics (e.g., Healthy Sexuality, Anger and Stress Management, Interpersonal Relationships, Cognitive Restructuring).

Sex Offender Treatment Program (SOTP) consists of an eighteen-month intensive treatment program in a therapeutic community environment that allow offenders immediate feedback about their behavior and treatment progress (SOTP-18) and a nine-month moderate intensity program to assist sex offenders determined to pose a higher and more moderate re-offense risk respectively (SOTP-9). The programs involve three treatment phases employing a cognitive-behavioral model. The primary goal of the programs is to reduce the rate of re-offense and move the participants toward a more pro-social lifestyle.

Program Objectives

To reduce the potential for further deviant behavior
To offer a comprehensive treatment program that addresses motivation, psychosocial education, psychological evaluation, and sex offender treatment and relapse prevention training for the population of sex offenders residing in TDCJ
To provide a highly structured but individually focused treatment plan for each participant in the SOTP based on the identified needs of each offender
To identify and target for change the cognitive and behavioral patterns which have resulted in sexual offending
To encourage each participant to accept responsibility for all his deviant offenses and demonstrate empathy for the victims of the offense
To carefully monitor and record the progress of each individual through the various phases of the program
To provide for a continuum of care that reaches across all phases of the SOTP and continues in the community after the offender is released from TDCJ

Policy

It is the policy of the SORP to provide meaningful sex offender evaluation, education, and treatment to all incarcerated sex offenders, in Texas Department of Criminal Justice, who are program eligible.

Program Contact:

Joseph A. Bon-Jorno
Two Financial Plaza, Suite 370
Huntsville, TX 77340
(936) 437-2870
joseph.bon-jorno@tdcj.state.tx.us