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Protesters to rally in St. Paul against Minnesota’s sex offender treatment program
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People opposed to Minnesota’s sex offender treatment program plan to rally in St. Paul Sunday to demand lawmakers phase out the program.
Clients of the Minnesota Sex Offender Program and their relatives are calling for “an end to an indefinite detention program they believe is an unconstitutional death sentence” at facilities in Moose Lake and St. Peter, according to a news release from organizers.
Most of the 700-some people detained at the prisonlike facilities already served sentences for sex offenses. Minnesota law allows courts to involuntarily commit people for treatment after completing prison sentences if they’re deemed to be at high risk of reoffending.
Protesters honk for hunger strikers, call for end of Moose Lake sex offender program
Clients and their supporters are calling for an end to the state program which discharges few of the hundreds of the men it locks up. 7:25 pm, Jul. 11, 2021 ×
Robert Johnson and Cherry Osborne hold a sign reading End civil commitment now! at the honk-in protest at the Minnesota Sexual Offender Program in Moose Lake on Sunday, July 11, 2021. (Teri Cadeau / tcadeau@duluthnews.com)
Loud honks were heard as protesters gathered outside of the Minnesota Sex Offender Program Moose Lake facility to support the residents in a hunger strike.