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Our View: Cost, risk are central concerns on sex offenders

By "eAdvocate"

2-11-2011 Minnesota: There are few issues as serious as the risk of how to handle the 600 or so sex offenders in Minnesota treatment facilities, and the expected near doubling of this population in the next decade. Yet, so far, there doesn?t appear to be a lot of serious consideration among lawmakers and others of what to do. Unfortunately, the issue has become so politicized that solid information is hard to come by. The Pawlenty administration redacted and edited an in-depth report they requested on the subject last year. The report was supposed to lay out for legislators different options and risks and costs of dealing with this population. But suggestions from researchers that did not meet the Pawlenty administration?s political viewpoints on the issue were removed from the report...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on February 11, 2011 (boomark / email).