Source: radioiowa.com 11/24/21
The Iowa Supreme Court rules against a group of inmates at the Newton prison who said their constitutional rights were violated by a delay in getting sex offender treatment need to be considered for parole.
The ruling says the Iowa Department of Corrections has not postponed treatment in order to delay parole. It says it is a numbers problem where there are more male sex offenders in Iowa’s prison system than spots available for treatment.
This is exactly what happened to me. It took almost 19 months for me to get into a treament group into a 24 month minimum sentence and the treatment class lasted 18 months plus a 9 month maintenance course afterwards. The state DoC recognized the backup in parole eligibility because of this and changed the 9 month maintenance course which by the way original met only once a month for one hour to the new 2 x a week for a month. They were literally pushing us through the treatment course to get us out the door. There just were not enough seats available when each group started to place the needed inmates in when the group started.
My sentence was one to four years; which I had to do six months to two years of time. When I went for my first parole review the board ended up giving me a final hearing, but then I started “treatment” the board decided to give me a review instead. Every time I had a review they would deny me a hearing, so I jammed. Not everyone in prison needs “treatment” and I rather have treatment on the outside. Maybe they should deny people with violent crimes and their numerous convictions, but the registrant is more of an issue.
Knowing what I know about how Iowans think, “treatment” probably involves chemical castration. These people are little more than animals.
The Times-Republican newspaper (Marshalltown, IA) writes:
“The opinion issued Tuesday [by the Iowa Supreme Court] states that the Iowa Department of Corrections has acted reasonably in attempting to address the fact there are too many sex offenders in the system to provide treatment on a timely basis.”
So the solution is to continue their incarceration???? WTF?! 😡
These idiots make the laws, then they can’t fulfill the requirements that they themselves have mandated, so others have to suffer for their incompetence???
And their moron Supreme Court says, “All good.” 😡
My question is, why is there sex offender treatment in prison when the majority of people say sex offenders cannot be rehabilitated?