Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center

Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center
Location 8 Production Way
Avenel, New Jersey
Status open
Security class specialty
Capacity 700
Opened 1976
Managed by New Jersey Department of Corrections

The Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center (ADTC) is a secure correctional facility operated by the New Jersey Department of Corrections. Its purpose is to provide treatment for certain repetitive and compulsive male sex offenders who have been sentenced under the New Jersey Sex Offender Act.[1]

From its opening in 1976 through at least 1994, ADTC is a unique facilty, the "only complex of its kind in the nation devoted exclusively to the treatment of adult sexual offenders". [2] The facility is located in the Avenel section of Woodbridge Township, New Jersey.

ADTC houses and treats two groups of men: 1. Certain convicted sex offenders willing to engage in treatment who have been sentenced by the Court under the New Jersey Sex Offender Act to serve their sentences at the facility, and 2. Men who are not sentenced under the New Jersey Sex Offender Act, but have committed a sex offense. As of 1/1/2013, the facility had a population of 681.

Inmates who, at the end of their sentence have been determined to be Sexually Violent Predators, are civilly committed at the Special Treatment Unit. Previously in Kearny, New Jersey, the Special Treatment Unit is located on the grounds of East Jersey State Prison.

References

  1. ↑ "Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center". New Jersey Department of Corrections. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  2. ↑ Nordheimer, Jon (2 November 1994). "New Look at Jail Unit Housing Sex Offenders". New York Times. Retrieved 1 September 2016.

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Coordinates: 40°35′24″N 74°16′26″W / 40.5900°N 74.2738°W / 40.5900; -74.2738

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