Secure Treatment Program opens at Souza Baranowski Correctional Center

Milford (April 23, 2008)- A new Secure Treatment Program (STP) has opened at the Massachusetts Department of Correction's Souza Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley. The program will enhance mental health treatment of inmates currently diagnosed with serious mental illness who can't conform to societal and/or institutional standards of conduct.

Integrated interdisciplinary treatment approaches are used to provide incentives for inmates to behave while they learn how to be responsible for themselves. The program meets the inmate's mental health needs taking into consideration their disciplinary status as well as the safety and security needs of the system. The STP provides inmates with enhanced access to rehabilitation services that promote adaptive functioning through psychiatric and behavioral interventions motivating inmates to adjust to environmental demands and eventually to reintegration into the general population.

The Souza Baranowski Correctional Center STP opened February 19, 2008.

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