Sex offenders at Moose Lake facility launch hunger strike
At least 10 sex offenders held for years at a northern Minnesota treatment center have launched a hunger strike to protest conditions at the facility and a law that enables the state to detain them indefinitely beyond their prison terms.
A few of the men said they were prepared to be hospitalized from starvation if their demands are not met for a clear legal pathway for release from the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP), which confines nearly 740 convicted rapists, child abusers and other offenders in prison-like treatment centers in Moose Lake and St. Peter.
The hunger strike entered its sixth day Tuesday and is the latest action by offenders seeking to call attention to a state-operated civil commitment system that has long been criticized for detaining too many offenders for too long.
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Matthew 7:1-5 1
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 3″Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
Monkey Man, I cannot know what secrets you are hiding, but God does. I will not judge you but let the Father correct you. I forgive you on behalf of those you have wished to die.
For everyone else reading this, I use to ask to have these comments of hate towards of us to be removed, but now welcome them, as it shows just one of the hundreds of reasons the registry is punishment.
We have to worry about mentally unstable people who take the law into their own hands with all the information about us to harm us or our families.
Hey Troll, did you see my latest victory over Senator Book? You must be beside yourself right now.