ANACONDA - A new $25 million STEP correctional facility built near Anaconda aims to relieve some of the burden of an already overcrowded correctional system by concentrating on treatment and intensive counseling for low-level offenders.

Watch to learn more about the STEP correctional facility near Anaconda: New Anaconda facility to house and treat low-level sex offenders

“We’re excited, I think it will benefit, certainly the offender, but for public safety, our communities, our state, the Department of Corrections, it’s a win, win, win,” CCCS CEO Mike Thatcher said during a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday.

The Specialized Treatment Enhanced Program (STEP) is a partnership between the Department of Corrections and the CCCS to hold and treat low-level sex offenders from three months t

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