Can sex offenders be successfully rehabilitated? While that question is being debated thousands of sex offenders are serving prison time… but they often receive little or no treatment while incarcerated. Without treatment it is almost certain that offenders will repeat their crimes after they are released. And almost all sex offenders will be released… it is just a question of when. In North Carolina a pilot program is underway to see if some offenders can be treated successfully. The S.O.A.R. (Sex Offender Accountability and Responsibility) program was instituted by the N.C. Department of Correction in 1991. About 15 sex offenders at a time are put through the 90 day treatment program. 'Stateline' was allowed to tape some S.O.A.R. group therapy sessions. These sessions became the basis for a thirty minute program about S.O.A.R., as seen through the eyes of the inmates, the staff, and the administrator. We also showed our tapes of the therapy sessions to rape crisis counsellors, to get the reactions of those who treat the victims of sex offenses. Are the offenders really 'getting better' because they have confronted their behavior for the first time in their lives? Or are they so practiced at deception, and so 'sick' that they can never be rehabilitated?