Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Sexual predator treatment is squeezing state budgets

Despite completed sentences, sex offenders are being kept locked up

MOOSE LAKE, Minn. — Just off the highway leading to this woodsy Minnesota town, more than 400 men live behind tall fences topped with razor wire. They spend their days shuffling between meals, group therapy sessions and activities such as painting state park signs.

The men are sex offenders who have completed their prison sentences. But because they are still considered dangerous, they have been locked away indefinitely - part of a national trend that began when states were flush with cash.  Read more...

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