Alright I'm going to throw my hat in and share a little insight on the group home thing because I have a family member who has worked in that industry for 20+ years. I'll add some stuff that I didn't see get touched on, because I do think he's going to end up in a group home. Not sure the specifics of Virginia but I know a number of states use a system like this for group homes that aren't privately owned and operated or if they are, they're the kind that will take court orders and other types of patients that would normally be subject to scrutiny. Some of the more lax places (the kinds of places that would allow him a bit more freedom) won't take tards with sex crimes because the whole purpose of giving their residents freedom is the assurance that their tards will not be a danger to the public.
They will hold him in jail until a spot opens up if he is court ordered into a group home. In the event that it's a court order he won't be able to decide if he stays or goes, obviously. A little different from a conservatorship or ward of the state deal because the court order is either for a set amount of time or upon completion of whatever program they have going. The program would consist of him meeting goals, usually those aimed at teaching him independence and not reoffending.
In homes like these they have standards of behavior and living, which include hygiene and chores. The day is usually structured and gets less structured as residents complete phases of their treatment plan or whatever individual program has been created for them. This is where the no porn thing comes into play, because it's against the behavior standards.
The process of teaching independence may include him getting a job later on down the line if that's a part of his treatment plan. They could transition him to a more "halfway-house" style of living that could kick him back to the stricter program if he fucked it up. In some ways this whole group home thing is a lot worse than jail because jail is based more off of time served and a bit less on behavior. But these state mandated stays can be indefinite if a person isn't making progress towards improvement. Someone who works their program and meets goals can get out relatively quickly, but we know how he can be.
Chris thinks that a group home will be a step up from jail, but he has no idea what it's like and if he isn't motivated to get out he won't. It's a legal loophole that has been used for decades, similar to locking people in asylums for years and years.
Someone I had the displeasure of encountering ended up in a place like this via court order and has sat for at least seven years when he could've been out in two. Anyway, moving on.
Medication can also be part of a treatment plan, but all of that is heavily regulated by the psychiatrist and the support staff. The psych prescribes, the staff medicate and do mouth checks to make sure someone isn't squirrelling their pills. Some places will restrict bathroom usage after taking meds if someone has made it clear they're gonna try to puke up their meds or do anything suspicious after meds or meals.
Communications are monitored, hobbies are monitored, interests are usually limited to whatever is considered therapeutic, and all of this is legal because it's considered part of the treatment plan. They can also isolate him as a part of the treatment plan. People assume the asylums are gone but they've morphed into group homes. Some of these places are really deplorable, but they mask this by once again saying that what they're doing is part of a treatment plan.
I think he's earned it, though. I think he'll do the bare minimum to get enough privileges to be able to get some computer time, but the second he fucks up they take it all away and he's gotta work from the ground up. But he thinks it's the lesser of two evils.
. One of the options near Charlottesville looks rather familiar: 