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MN - Audit: Sex offender program costly, inconsistent

Original Article 03/11/2011 By PAUL McENROE and WARREN WOLFE The Legislative Auditor concluded that dangerous offenders in Minnesota receive inadequate treatment, while others don't need confinement. Hundreds of Minnesota sex offenders confined in state treatment facilities receive inadequate therapy from under-qualified staff at excessive cost, according to a report released Friday by Legislative Auditor James Nobles. At the same time, many others present such low risk to the public that they could safely be released to secured community group homes, saving taxpayers millions of dollars, the report said. And in what they describe as inconsistent public safety policy, auditors found that some sex offenders under indefinite commitment may be less likely to re-offend than dangerous felons in state prisons who are being released back to the streets...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on March 11, 2011 (boomark / email).