Sex Offender Residential Treatment Program (SORT)

The Sex Offender Residential Treatment (SORT) Program located at Brunswick Correctional Center in Lawrenceville, Virginia is dedicated to providing comprehensive assessment and treatment services to inmates who have been identified as being at moderate to high risk for sexual reoffending. The SORT program utilizes techniques which have been shown to have the greatest likelihood of reducing reoffending behavior, e.g., Relapse Prevention, modification of deviant sexual interest, use of the Transtheoretical Model, assessing criminogenic needs, etc. Although the program recognizes that there is no “cure” for sex offending behavior, the goal of the program is to enhance the safety of the citizens of the Commonwealth by teaching skills to identified sex offenders in an effort to prevent relapse.

Because the Department is dedicated to providing services of the highest quality, evaluation and monitoring of the program is ongoing with changes made as necessary to ensure state-of-the-art programming.