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Locked in Limbo

By Corey Rayburnyung

A couple of helpful readers let me know about this wonderful series in the Minneapolis Star Tribune about the Minnesota's post-incarceration institutionalization program. The story is divided into four parts on the paper's website and you can find those links here, here, here, and here. Here are some interesting excerpts pulled from various sections of the four parts:In the 14 years since Minnesota's Sexually Dangerous Persons Act cleared the way for the state to detain hundreds of paroled sex offenders in prison-like treatment centers, just 24 men have met what has proved to be the only acceptable standard for release. They died. "We would say, 'Another one completed treatment,'" said Andrew Babcock, a former guard and counselor in the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on June 12, 2008 (boomark / email).