Programming Treatment consists of three therapeutic communities. Two are at the Draper site (Con-Quest and ExCell) and one is at the Gunnison site (HOPE). All three communities are designed as a residential substance abuse treatment program for both male (Con-Quest and HOPE) and female (ExCell) offenders.
During the 2015 General Session, the Legislature appropriated for Fiscal Year 2016, $6,766,700 from all sources for Programming Treatment. This is a 22.3 percent increase from Fiscal Year 2015 revised estimated amounts from all sources. The total includes $6,766,000 from the General/Education Funds, an increase of 22.3 percent from revised Fiscal Year 2015 estimates.
In addition to statewide compensation and internal service fund cost increases, the following appropriation adjustments were made during the 2015 General Session:
The Institutional Operations Programming Treatment program is one of three programs created from the former Institutional Operations Programming program in FY 2008 (an additional program - Programming Education was created in FY 2010). The aim of these programs is to treat causes of criminal behavior such as drug and alcohol addiction.
COBI contains unaudited data as presented to the Legislature by state agencies at the time of publication. For audited financial data see the State of Utah's Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports.