Title: The Comprehensive Assessment Protocol: A Systemwide Review of Adult and Juvenile Sex Offender Management Strategies
Headings: Treatment
Treatment
Overview
Availability, Capacity, and Accessibility
Prison–Based Sex Offender Treatment
Facility–Based Treatment for Juveniles
Community–Based Programs for Adult and Juvenile Sex Offenders

Content: To  the extent possible, treatment settings for juveniles should also take into  account the least restrictive alternative, proximity to the home and community,  and family strengths and needs. Prison–Based Sex Offender Treatment
The majority of states offer some form of prison–based sex offender  treatment in one or more of their facilities (West, Hromas, & Wenger,  2000). In some jurisdictions, correctional agencies are legislatively or otherwise  mandated to maintain treatment programs and, in some instances, legislation  requires sex offenders to participate in these programs in order to be considered  for conditional release or parole. Regardless, although prison–based  sex offender treatment programs are generally available, their actual capacity  may be quite limited (see, e.g., Gordon & Hover, 1998; West et al., 2000). These capacity concerns, coupled with the ever–increasing numbers of  convicted sex offenders entering prisons (Harrison & Beck, 2006), mean  that it will be a greater challenge to ensure that all of the sex offenders  who can benefit from prison–based treatment will be able to access it. To increase availability, capacity, and accessibility, program administrators  and staff have begun to develop a range of prison–based sex offender–specific  interventions that vary in nature and intensity (see, e.g., Gordon & Hover,  1998; Marshall et al., 2006b;