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MN - Our View: New ideas welcome on offender policies

Original Article 03/14/2011 State policy makers may finally be able to do what has eluded them for the past decade: Have a reasoned and meaningful debate about changing the Minnesota sex offender treatment program. It?s long been clear changes are needed in a program that doesn?t work, is growing in size and cost and is on shaky constitutional ground. More than 600 sex offenders ? who have served all their prison time ? are held at St. Peter and Moose Lake under indefinite commitment. The number is expected to increase by 50 each year. No one has ever been released ? although one is currently attempting to ? which raises constitutional questions: People are not generally held against their will for life for things they might do if released...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on March 15, 2011 (boomark / email).