All Departments Rows of razor wire surround the Martin Treatment Center in Indiantown where a resident can be seen shooting baskets in the recreation area. Serving their time and then some A controversial law has spawned a controversial treatment center for sex offenders who have already served out their prison sentences. Defense attorneys call it a prison in disguise. In a dusty corner of South Florida, corrections officers walk the perimeter of a squat building wrapped in silver razor wire.
Heat shimmers off the little-traveled country road out front.
A gator grunts in a nearby swamp, while behind tall fences, a man tosses a basketball under a guard's steady gaze. But inside, behind heavy metal doors, dormitories are decorated with plants and colorful paint. An NFL schedule is tacked to a bulletin board. Men in jeans and T-shirts squint over a worn chess board before their afternoon classes and group therapy. But defense attorneys say this is prison in disguise, a warehouse for men who have already done their time.