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TVs For Sex Offender Program Now Going to MN Guard

By Corey Rayburnyung

Earlier, we told you about Minnesota's Moose Lake Sex Offenders Program, which lost 24 of its new 50-inch plasma TVs. Now, WKBT.com reports that some of those TVs will go to the Minnesota Guard. From the article: Eight of the flat-screen TVs removed from a Minnesota sex offender treatment facility on Gov. Tim Pawlenty's orders will go to Minnesota National Guard facilities.The state Department of Administration said Wednesday that Camp Ripley, near Brainerd, will get six of the 50-inch plasma televisions that prompted Pawlenty's ire last week. The Guard's Minneapolis and Duluth airbases will also each get one.Pawlenty called for discipline for whoever authorized buying 26 TVs costing $1,500 each, plus $700 mounting brackets, for the Moose Lake sex offender facility...continue to full post

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