A state audit is critical of a Kansas program where some convicted sex offenders are sent for treatment after they serve their prison sentences. The audit says the involuntary program doesn’t offer individualized treatment and most people don’t complete it. Kari Bruffett is secretary of the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services, which runs the Sexual Predator Treatment Program. She says the audit doesn’t take into account recent improvements they’ve made.
“Some of the findings that we see in this report actually are different from the way we’re conducting the program or managing the program even right now,” says Bruffet.
The audit says nearly 250 residents were enrolled in treatment as of December. Only three offenders have completed the program and been released since it was created in 1994. The goal is to treat sex offenders so they don’t later commit more crimes in the future.
