Pennsylvania Sexual Offenders Assessment Board SEX OFFENDER CONTAINMENT MODEL Pennsylvania Sex Offender Containment Model July 2006 TABLE OF CONTENTS (Click section and you will be directed to the corresponding page) CHAPTER 1 — INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................1 Impetus to This Model ................................................................................................................ 2 SOMT – Key Findings and Recommendations ........................................................................4 Newly Enacted Federal Legislation...........................................................................................5 Recommendations...................................................................................................................... 5 Pre-Incarceration: Investigations, Assessments and Sentencing............................................................. 5 Appendix: Grant Collaborative Team......................................................................................11 Addendum – September 2006..................................................................................................13 CHAPTER 2 — PENNSYLVANIA STATUTES............................................................................1 Overview ......................................................................................................................................2 Sentencing in Pennsylvania ...................................................................................................................... 2 Comparison to Determinate Sentencing Systems .................................................................................... 2 Pennsylvania’s Authorized Dispositions (General Provisions)..............................................3 Sex-Related Offenses ............................................................................................................................... 4 Statutory Terms ..........................................................................................................................8 Glossary: Pennsylvania Statutes ............................................................................................................ 10 Description of Offenses ........................................................................................................... 12 Appendix: PA Statutes, Regulations Relevant to Sex Offender Supervision .....................25 CHAPTER 3 — VICTIM/WITNESS ASSISTANCE INFORMATION............................................1 Victim/Witness Assistance Information....................................................................................2 Services..................................................................................................................................................... 2 Sexual Assault Service Providers ............................................................................................................. 2 Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape.......................................................................................3 PA Commission on Crime and Delinquency, Office of Victims’ Services.............................4 Office of Victims’ Services Duties ............................................................................................................. 4 Victims’ Compensation Assistance Program ............................................................................................ 4 PA Office of the Victim Advocate .............................................................................................................. 6 Office of the Victim Advocate Services, Duties......................................................................................... 7 Eligible Victims .......................................................................................................................................... 7 Victims’ Rights in Pre-Release Programs ................................................................................................. 8 Pennsylvania Sex Offender Containment Model July 2006 Registered Victims’ Rights and Parole Release ....................................................................................... 8 Address Confidentiality Program............................................................................................10 Application to Participate......................................................................................................................... 10 Address Disclosure ................................................................................................................................. 10 CHAPTER 4 — PENNSYLVANIA DATA.....................................................................................1 Overview ......................................................................................................................................2 Findings from the Survey of Local Police Departments .........................................................5 Extent/Nature of Dedicated Sex Offender Unit or Registration/Notification Purposes ............................. 6 Sex Offenders Accountability for Failure to Register ................................................................................ 8 Information on CLEAN Messages............................................................................................................. 8 How Long They Keep Clean Messages.................................................................................................... 9 How Clean Information Is Used ................................................................................................................ 9 Community Education Programming ........................................................................................................ 9 Victim Contact Prior to Community Notification ........................................................................................ 9 Responses to the Open Ended Comments Question of the Survey....................................................... 10 Findings from Survey of County Wardens .............................................................................29 Sex Offender Assessment in the County Prisons ................................................................................... 30 The Provision of Treatment to Sex Offenders at the County Prison Level ............................................. 30 Additional Information ............................................................................................................................. 32 Findings from the Juvenile Probation Survey .......................................................................32 Components of Juvenile Sex Offender Treatment.................................................................................. 35 The Nature of the Supervision of Juvenile Sex Offenders...................................................................... 36 Additional information.............................................................................................................................. 37 Conditions of Probation and Elements of Supervision for Juvenile Sex Offenders ............................... 39 Additional Information ............................................................................................................................. 42 Findings from the Open Ended Comments Question of the Survey....................................................... 43 Findings from the Adult Probation Survey.............................................................................44 Special Conditions of Sex Offender Evaluation/Treatment Routinely Ordered by the Court.................. 44 Re-entry Process in Place for Sex Offenders? ....................................................................................... 44 Summary of Type of Treatment Being Used With Sex Offenders by Providers ..................................... 46 Extent and Nature of Sex Offender Supervision Within Local Probation................................................ 46 Pennsylvania Sex Offender Containment Model July 2006 Agency’s Use of the Polygraph, Electronic Monitoring, and Global Positioning Systems...................... 48 Summary Of Comments Regarding at What Point Agencies Involve Victims ........................................ 49 Summary Of Question Regarding Agency’s Policy on Offender’s Release To a Home With Children Present .................................................................................................................................................... 49 Findings from the Open Ended Comments Question of the Survey....................................................... 50 Findings from the District Attorney Survey ...........................................................................51 Summary of “If Yes” Please Describe Those Policies ............................................................................ 53 Issues Related to Plea Bargaining.......................................................................................................... 54 Special Units Assigned to Sex Offense Cases ....................................................................................... 55 Charging Decisions for Sex Offense Cases............................................................................................ 55 The Tracking of Sex Offense Cases over Time