Does anyone else wonder why the Minnesota Department of Corrections continues to release Level 3 sex offenders after they finish their prison sentence? Level 3 persons are most likely to reoffend.

I can tell you why.

The whole sex offender program is run by Human Services out of St. Paul. The directors and office personnel answer to no one. I’ve asked for an independent controller but to no avail.

Security counselors, or guards, are given a 20-minute speech and tour of Mosse Lake MSOP and hired to treat or abuse the inmates as they desire.

I write to 11 MSOP inmates. Many of the sex offenders are Level 2, which, according to the Minnesota Department of Corrections, are least likely to reoffend. But the courts have condemned them to a place that is much worse than any prison with no chance of ever being released.

Even Gov. Dayton refuses to see what is going on!

Two of the inmates I write letters to have been put in administrative isolation. One was locked up for six weeks and the other was locked up for over eight weeks. They must stay in the cell 23 hours a day with no phone calls or mail and be treated with no respect.

This is what Human Services does for us at a huge price to all taxpayers of Minnesota.

The former Human Services commissioner has been quoted as saying, “I never made such easy money.”

 

Pearl C. Nelson

Conger