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Families, clinicians and experts urge review of SPTP's ethics, efficacy and oversight
Summary
Family members, a former SPTP clinician and national experts told the Committee on Social Services Budget that the program may be ethically and clinically unsound, questioned its public-safety benefit relative to cost, and urged a multiyear oversight study and consideration of community-based alternatives.
Family members, clinicians and outside experts used an informational Committee on Social Services Budget hearing to press the Legislature for a deeper examination of the state's violent predator treatment program (SPTP), raising concerns about treatment quality, program structure and the cost-benefit of continued civil commitment.
Eldon Dillingham, a family member, described daily life inside the program and told the committee his son has been in the program about 14 years. "When someone goes to this program, they go there to die," Dillingham said, adding that many residents are treatment refusers and…
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