Please Help Chris Krych, an American Citizen!

Ultimately Funded by Minnesota Taxpayers

2012-02-14T18:21:00.000-08:00

As the MSOP looks to release it's first inmate from the Moose Lake facility, I am adding the latest report from Krych. The latest is a commentary and an update on a suit filed by those in the program.

Two December Letters

2012-01-29T13:26:00.000-08:00

I had forgotten to post these up because I wanted time for the last letters to be read. These two illustrate the difficulties he faces in determining which particular individual is the most responsible for violating his human rights.

Krych's latest double bunking awareness campaign Nov. 4, 2011

2011-11-19T21:33:00.001-08:00

Below is a series of papers on Chris Krych's complaint against the practice of double-bunking. As always, click on the picture for a larger copy for easy reading.

The MSOP-ML Administrative Restrictive Plan

2011-10-27T10:26:00.000-07:00

Krych gives an outline of the administrative restriction placed on Krych. It sounds a lot like prison segregation, yet MSOP claims this is not "punishment:"

Krych: Cost-Efficiency Trade-Off

2011-10-15T22:22:00.000-07:00

The latest complaint against double bunking:

Krych-- Request for a single bunk

2011-10-01T20:51:00.000-07:00

Krych's latest letter is a request for a single room. Not everyone in the MSOP are predators with uncontrollable behaviors; some are there as a result of politics more than anything. Click on the document to enlarge it.

Something Stinks!

2011-08-19T17:10:00.000-07:00

Mr Krych's latest offering. As always, click on the page to enlarge it.

Krych: Sinners of Power

2011-07-20T16:34:00.001-07:00

A letter he sent me last month, I'm just now able to put it online. Click on the page to enlarge it.

Krych: Shutdown MSOP

2011-07-20T16:30:00.000-07:00

The second of Krych's latest articles. As always click on the paper to enlarge it.

Krych: MN-MSOP Violates RICO

2011-07-20T16:28:00.000-07:00

The latest article from Chris Krych. Click on the page to enlarge the paper.

Letter to the Editor: "The MSOP's Cost-Efficiency Trade-off"

2011-05-24T20:42:00.000-07:00

In Mr. Krych's latest letter to me, Chris sends a copy of a letter to the editor he wrote last month, so I thought I'd share it here:

It is interesting to note there is a news story on the rape of an inmate of the program, something Krych has mentioned on this blog.

Krych's Call for Civil Commitment Re-evaluation

2011-03-02T19:15:00.000-08:00

Krych admits to his past but argues the involuntary civil commitment is unwarranted. As always, click on the page to read the full size copy:

Letter to the Star Tribune Editor 2/9/11

2011-03-02T19:07:00.000-08:00

Below is a letter to the Star Tribune Editor which I am forwarding on his behalf. As always, click on the page to see the full sized document.

Stop Rape in MN-MSOP

2011-03-02T18:13:00.000-08:00

The Second of Krych's letters, addressing the issue of double bunking, which increases risk of assaults and rapes within the camp. As always, click on the page to see it in full size:

Unprofessionalism at DHS-MSOP

2011-03-02T17:46:00.000-08:00

The first of a series of notices from Chris Krych, this page addresses unprofessional conduct from DHS MSOP Director Dan Storkamp. As always you can click on the paper to see it in full size:

Ludeman alters SO report to promote Pawlenty's views

2011-02-08T11:58:00.000-08:00

I'm pretty sure this has happened in many places. A politician alters a report to reflect his views. This is corruption at its worst. They should string this guy up on corruption charges. I'll have to send this to Chris-- maybe he'll write a response I can post here::

http://www.startribune.com/politics/local/115534414.html

Details on sex offender program deleted

Cal Ludeman, a Tim Pawlenty confidant and his commissioner of Human Services, edited a report on Minnesota's sex offender treatment to reflect Pawlenty's views.

By PAUL McENROE, Star Tribune

Last update: February 7, 2011 - 11:27 PM

A report on Minnesota's sex-offender program delivered to legislators in the final days of the Pawlenty administration was heavily edited by a top political appointee to reflect the former governor's skepticism about the effectiveness of treatment and to delete arguments for expanded community resources for offenders.

Cal Ludeman, a Pawlenty confidant and his commissioner of Human Services, said in an interview that he edited the mandated report because "it was promising too much'' and the administration preferred to continue its emphasis on tougher prison sentences for sex offenders.

Ludeman said he did not believe his actions misled legislators, who will have to make funding decisions and policy choices this session on the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP).

But Sen. Linda Berglin, DFL-Minneapolis, who served on a task force charged with finding ways to cut the program's costs, said Monday she was angered that the editing, in effect, withheld information from legislators.

Sex-offender treatment is one of the fastest growing expenses in the state budget, she said, and requires urgent attention from lawmakers.

A spokesman said Pawlenty was traveling Monday evening and was not available to comment.

Ludeman also deleted a passage on the need to educate children on sex abuse and violence, and another on ways the Department of Health could help conduct prevention campaigns. On Tuesday, MSOP officials are due to brief a legislative committee about the future of the $64 million program. It currently holds more than 600 offenders -- some of them violent, many of them chronic -- at secure facilities in St. Peter and Moose Lake. Its population is expected to reach more than 1,100 by 2020.

Tug of war

The decision to withhold certain recommendations from legislators comes at a crucial time for the 17-year-old program, which has been buffeted for years between political pressure to confine offenders indefinitely and legal concerns that such a practice is unconstitutional. Last year a special professional review board recommended that two convicted rapists held in St. Peter be provisionally discharged into halfway houses in the Twin Cities. If a state Supreme Court appeals panel this spring approves those recommendations, it would be the first time since the mid-1990's such a decision was made.

Ludeman said Pawlenty's senior staff was aware that he made the deletions late last year to better fit the administration's political philosophy. He said the advisers approved his edited version. He acknowledged that he and Pawlenty spoke frequently about how to manage and treat offenders, but said he did not know whether Pawlenty was aware of his specific redactions.

Ludeman said he believed that his deletions did not leave a "huge void of information.'' Asked if legislators might wonder why he edited out information provided by the state's most knowledgeable experts on sex offenders, he said, "I can't answer that -- I don't know what they would want to know.''

"I think the [final] report was visibly consistent with what the governor's view was," he said. The state can choose between a "corrections environment'' for chronic offenders and indefinite confinement in treatment programs, Ludeman said. He added: "What we've been working on is trying to lengthen the stay in corrections'' for the most serious offenders.

In the last year of his administration, Pawlenty pushed for first-degree sex offenders to have their sentences doubled -- to as much as 25 years -- and then use civil commitment mostly as a way to hold offenders even longer.

Berglin responded: "I thought the purpose of this report was to look at ways that we could rein costs in. To say, 'Well, these are sex offenders, we just have to keep paying as much as we are,' is a ridiculous notion. You know, we're not children, we don't need to be protected from information about spending.''

No other options?

Among the sections completely deleted from the report was a discussion of alternatives to long-term civil commitment and a discussion of help for juveniles who have committed acts of sexual abuse. One deleted passage read: "There may be a limited proportion of commitments in which placement in a highly secure setting like MSOP is not necessary, yet is the only option because no lesser restrictive option currently exists.''

A passage arguing that the state Health Department could improve education for parents and troubled youth was deleted, Ludeman said, because he didn't think that was what legislators would be interested in reading.

The Department of Human Services, he said, "was setting itself up in the original report to be the expert in what it took in education and community support to prevent future sex offenders,'' he said. He said that, in his view, education and prevention are the responsibility of the "education system, parents and law enforcement.''

"To say that we can get them the appropriate mental health treatment protocol is something that [Human Services] is not ready, certainly not able, to do, and I thought this report was being too positive,'' Ludeman said.

Paul McEnroe • 612-673-1745

Once again, reports of possible releases

2011-02-06T07:20:00.000-08:00

I won't cut and paste the entire article here but its another year and another round of speculation as to whether MN-MSOP will release Chris Krych or anyone else:

http://www.startribune.com/local/115381664.html

State may loosen grip on sex offenders

The possible release of two violent rapists reflects growing legal concerns over indefinite detention.

By PAUL McENROE, Star Tribune

Last update: February 6, 2011 - 12:20 AM

In a rare step, state officials have recommended supervised release for two violent sex offenders who are under indefinite commitment at a state treatment center in St. Peter, according to documents and authorities familiar with the cases.

The recommendations -- the first of their kind in nearly 15 years -- reflect an emerging shift in thinking among officials in charge of Minnesota's controversial sex offender program. Created in 1994, it allows the state to hold offenders indefinitely -- for years, even decades -- at highly secure facilities in Moose Lake and St. Peter.

Officials familiar with the cases contend that the state must find a new balance between ensuring public safety and acknowledging the rights of offenders who have submitted to long detention and completed therapy. The shift, which emerged from closed sessions last year, occurs against a backdrop of explosive growth in the program's population and costs. The state's offender population has tripled since 2003 -- to 605 people last year -- making Minnesota first per capita among states in confining sex offenders and third overall in offender population, behind California and Florida.

But officials, clinicians and legal experts say their main concern is that the program might not withstand new court challenges over the constitutionality of holding offenders for years without the prospect of release.

Nonetheless, the prospective release of ****** and ***** is sure to reignite debate over public safety and the effectiveness of therapy for violent, chronic sex offenders.

Michael Farnsworth created a monster

2011-02-04T04:24:00.000-08:00

Since I haven't gotten anything recent for Chris, I'd like to share something from Minnesota Public Radio from 2007. It is an article on how sex offender laws are based on myth and not fact. The focus is on the part of the article addressing the MN-MSOP, particularly fropm the very man who designed the program in place.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/06/11/sexoffender2/?refid=0

SEX OFFENDER PROGRAM HEAD: "I CAN'T DO THIS ANYMORE"

The Minnesota civil commitment program is considered a model for other states. But the man who designed the program says it's become irrelevant because of politics.

Michael Farnsworth says high-risk sex offenders are often very difficult to rehabilitate. But he says the Minnesota civil commitment program used a medical model based on science, to give offenders a chance to prove they can change.

Farnsworth left his job as head of the sex offender program in 2003, when the model program was caught in the middle of election-year politics.

"The attorney general at the time was, 'I'm going to be tough on crime, the governor is soft on crime and soft on sex offenders.' The governor was declaring he was not going to allow any sex offenders out on his watch," Farnsworth recalls.

"The message patients in the program got was, 'It doesn't matter how hard you work or whether you might recover, you're not getting out.' So if you want to undermine a program, that's the best way to do it," says Farnsworth. "Get the chief executive officer of your state to tell them that no matter how hard they work, they'll never get out. At that point I said, 'I can't do this work anymore.'"

Farnsworth says too often sex offender management is left to what he calls the hysterics and politics of the moment. He says the debate needs to move to another level.

"We haven't come to that intellectually honest place about what we really want to do with the group,"

Farnsworth says. "If you wanted to look at your best bang for the dollar you'd simply lock anyone up who's a sex offender and not pretend that you're providing treatment. You'd save a lot of money."

"I think it's more politically palatable to say, 'We are trying to provide treatment,' than to say, 'We just want to lock people up forever,'" says Farnsworth. "But the net effect, given the climate we live in, is that we end up locking them up forever, but doing so at the high cost of treatment."

Farnsworth says that decision has consequences. He says the state spends millions on a program politicians don't trust, to treat sex offenders who will never be released.

Farnsworth wonders, would that money be better spent on programs to treat the troubled kids who grow up to be sex offenders?

No one will be released from MN-MSOP in 2010

2010-11-26T14:23:00.000-08:00

I haven't gotten anything new from Chris to post as of late, so I thought I'd share the latest bad news. It was recently reported the Minnesota Civil Commitment Centers will not be releasing anyone this year after it was reported earlier this year they planned on releasing some civilly committed individuals. It is all a game to this program.

http://www.northlandsnewscenter.com/news/local/No-Sex-Offenders-109913464.html

Minnesota Sex Offender Program: "No Men Will Be Released in 2010"

By KBJR Manager

November 22, 2010 Duluth, MN (Northland's NewsCenter) - In a follow up to our report on the Minnesota Sex Offender Program spokespeople say no men will be released in 2010. Sex offenders who will be released must go before a court appointed panel after they've successfully completed treatment and because the court has not begun the process to release any men at this point no releases will be made before the end of the year. Spokespeople say the final stage before any release is to transfer offenders to the facility in St. Peter. No one has been transferred in preparation for release at this point. There are currently 587 sex offenders in the program and in the 15 years of Minnesota's Civil Commitment program no one has been successfully released.

Lots of Moose Lake News lately

2010-09-10T20:06:00.000-07:00

A lot of Moose Lake articles lately. First up, Elliot Holley win a $450k settlement against the Moose Lake Civil Commitment Center:

http://www.dolanmedia.com/view.cfm?recID=612791

Then there is a follow-up to an earlier report on Moose Lake' plans to release as many as nine civilly committed citizens a year:

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/08/13/sex-offender-release/

Still no word on whether or not any of this has will impact Chris.

Krych's four conditions of confinement concerns 08/12/2010

2010-08-30T17:03:00.000-07:00

Here is another letter from Mr. Krych. It seems that much like prison, he is reporting harassment from certain guard for his writ writing. Apparently he got in a little trouble for calling a guard a "retard." Apparently from what he wrote in his letter, he's had problems with this particular guard in the past.

The notarized letter is a list of grievances he has with the conditions of confinement:

Chris's Letter "Therapeutical 'Tax Dollars' Hard At Work

2010-08-07T13:19:00.000-07:00

Below is another letter Chris asked me to post on his behalf. This time, it is written in his own handwriting rather than by type this time. In reading this letter, it is hard to believe he is in a civil commitment center; it sounds more like a prison. As always, click on the page to read the entire page:

Thanks for the donation, Chris!

2010-07-20T19:01:00.000-07:00

I know he cannot see it, but I want to thank him for sending me $20 in support of my efforts. I was thinking about that today when I wrote an article on my other blog about how so many people affected by these laws are apathetic to the cause. Chris shared with me he has given what he could in support of programs he feels benefits society. Enclosed in his letter was three such programs: the National Death Row Assistance Network of CURE, the Coalition for Prisoners' Rights, and the Judicial Process Commission, who all offered thank you letters.

Chris said, "I'm not poor but I am a generous person." Like me, he bartered items for stamps to send such donations. I think we forget how valuable that is sometimes.

As an added bonus, here is an article on another center for sex offenders in MN:

http://kstp.com/printStory.cfm?id=1653068

Tracking Your Money: State Nursing Home for Sex Offenders Sits Empty for Year

Updated: 07/14/2010 10:41 PM KSTP.com By: Katie Lynn

The state of Minnesota spent nearly $10 million taxpayer dollars to build a nursing home for convicted sex offenders a state of the art, secured facility, but there's one very big problem; The new nursing home for committed sex offenders in St. Peter has sat unused for a year, because the building hasn't passed state inspection.

The building was finished last July and a ribbon cutting was held in October, but final inspections of the building hadn't taken place.

Nearly nine months later, the needed repairs still haven't been done. A hallway is too narrow, handrails and faucets are set at the wrong height and a fire alarm system locks doors instead of opening them in the event of a fire, says inspection reports. Dozens of other problems are listed in the inspections.

Meanwhile, taxpayers have had to heat and cool the empty building for a year, costing more than $5,000.

The 15 sex offenders who were supposed to be moved to the new facility are being housed in another building on the St. Peter campus. Eventually, the state says the 48-bed facility will be filled to capacity.

Our 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS Investigation has caught the attention of lawmakers. As a result, the St. Peter Project will be front and center at a legislative hearing later this summer.

MN SOs inch closer to freedom

2010-06-21T06:55:00.000-07:00

I haven't heard from Chris in a while but I saw this article from Minnesota Public Radio online and since it is relevant to his situation, I decided to post it here.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/06/21/sex-offender-release/

Minn. sex offenders inch closer to freedom

by Martiga Lohn, Associated Press

June 21, 2010

St. Paul, Minn. (AP) — State courts have sent more than 560 high-risk sexual predators to the Minnesota Sex Offender Program for indefinite treatment since 1995. The only person ever released was later pulled back inside for a violation and died there.

Now program officials are laying the groundwork for letting someone out, with intensive monitoring.

Since early 2008, with the approval of a judicial panel, five sex offenders have been moved outside the razor-wire fence at a state facility in St. Peter, about 70 miles southwest of Minneapolis. They have privileges such as escorted trips off campus and cooking their own food in the Community Preparation Service program, the last stop before a provisional discharge.

The offenders can ask for more freedom by petitioning the Minnesota Supreme Court for a provisional discharge. Similar petitions are routinely denied for offenders who haven't advanced as far in treatment.

It will be up to a three-judge panel appointed by the Minnesota Supreme Court to determine if one of the civilly committed sex offenders in Community Preparation Service takes that next step. Also weighing in will be a special review board that looks at the offender's progress in treatment and assesses his ability to re-enter society successfully.

Releasing a sex offender, even one found to have succeeded in treatment, won't go down easy with the public.

But experts said a release could help the sex offender program by showing that it exists to treat sex offenders, not detain them indefinitely. Consultants who evaluated Minnesota's program last year said the lack of releases goes against the program's intent and hurts the morale of patients and staff.

"If you have people flowing through your treatment and some of them being released, then that makes the whole process seem more credible," said Dr. David Thornton, treatment director for Wisconsin's sexual predator treatment program, which has released or discharged more than 60 sex offenders since 1995.

Provisional discharge wouldn't mean unfettered movement for a sex offender.

Dennis Benson, who heads the Minnesota Sex Offender Program, said a provisional discharge will come with daily supervision by an agent, geographic tracking, polygraph tests and outpatient treatment requirements. Any violations would send the sex offender back into confinement. Local law enforcement officials would be kept in the loop. The surrounding community would be informed if the person were to live anywhere other than a halfway house.

State officials wouldn't release details about the five sex offenders in the Community Preparation Service program, citing medical privacy laws.

MPR article on Moose Lake Camp

2010-04-22T17:14:00.000-07:00

Interesting note: At the end, the officials at Moose Lake do not know when if if they'll ever release anyone!

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/04/22/moose-lake-sex-offender-facility/

At Moose Lake, a facility some say is more prison than therapy

by Rupa Shenoy, Minnesota Public Radio

April 22, 2010

Moose Lake, Minn. — Three fences topped with razor wire line the perimeter of the state sex offender facility.

Inside are two steel and concrete buildings that house more than 400 men who have completed sentences for sex crimes. The men are still behind bars because county judges found they were too dangerous to return to communities and placed them under civil commitment.

After weeks of debate, state lawmakers agreed in March to allot $45.7 million for an expansion of the Moose Lake facility that officials say is vital for treatment. It will allow the program to keep pace with Minnesota's growing population of people under civil commitment. Taxpayers will have to spend more in two years, and at regular intervals afterward, to stay at that pace.

As the expansion gets underway, advocates for the offenders are questioning the treatment program's true purpose -- and the conditions under which the patients are kept. The ACLU of Minnesota represents men at Moose Lake who allege it is more like a prison than a treatment center.

The Moose Lake facility houses more than 400 men who have completed sentences for sex crimes. Each man costs the state $328 a day.

Dennis Benson, director of the state's sex offender treatment program, said the men at Moose Lake are patients, not inmates. Each man spends between six and ten hours a week in therapy -- mostly group discussion sessions, he said.

"Treatment goes way beyond the two hours of group that they spend everyday," Benson said. "We're documenting how they interact when they go to their work portion of the day. We document if we see something in the visiting room. Clinical staff will tell you someone can do fine in a treatment room but can they carry that behavior over to the gym? That approach is very different to even a sex offender treatment program at a prison."

At Moose Lake, men walk through the halls in street clothes. A few stand in groups, talking quietly.

But County courts considered them too dangerous to put back in communities. Judges placed them under civil commitment, allowing the state to hold the men in treatment indefinitely.

Every patient has to take responsibility for their crimes. Therapists check if they're telling the truth with regular polygraph tests, Benson said.

But the state has no authority to force sex offenders into treatment. About 90 refuse to participate.

Among them is Wallace Beaulieu. He was in pre-treatment therapy at Moose Lake but stopped participating.

"Anybody can say they're providing treatment, but if you're never giving anybody the opportunity to be released, what's the treatment then?" asks Beaulieu, 38.

Beaulieu said he was convicted twice for a forced sexual encounter -- one of a woman, in 1990, and 1992, a teenage girl. He said he spent four years in prison and was released in 1996.

Beaulieu said he did not register as a sex offender and was sent back to prison. When he finished that sentence, a Cass County judge ruled he was still a danger to the community and civilly committed him.

Beaulieu complains that Moose Lake is designed not to release patients.

"The treatment program right now is so vague," Beaulieu said. "They don't really talk about any sex offender issues that a person should be addressing.

"You go sit in there and tell them what's on your mind and all they do is write stuff down."

Whether Beaulieu and others at Moose Lake are in treatment is key part of their lawsuit. The U.S. and Minnesota Supreme courts have ruled that civil commitment is legal, as long as those committed are in treatment.

"It is a question of whether or not these conditions are reasonably related to therapeutic goals. We argue they are not," said Teresa Nelson, legal counsel for the ACLU.

"Depending on what the court rules in our case, that will have an impact on whether or not the program is found constitutional."

Instead of treatment, Beaulieu spends most of his days reading books checked out from the library or watching TV.

"We spend a lot of time in our unit," he said. "There's not a lot of activities made available for us.

"Once you serve your prison sentence you'd think you be treated better than we are here," he said. "It's like being back in prison."

As an example, Beaulieu points to his room, which he calls a cell. He said it looks just like the ones he had while in prison.

Most cells in Moose Lake are shared by two men. There are either 68 or 98 cells in each living unit.

There's a living unit for patients under 20 and another for elderly or infirmed patients.

Patients are locked in their rooms from 9:45 at night to 6:25 in the morning. The cells are largely made of welded steel, with two windows about five inches wide and four feet high. Patients double bunk and share a single toilet. They have a writing surface.

"They can have what they can put in two foot lockers," Benson said. "They can have a TV. They pay for their cable charge. They pay for the TV too."

Outside the cell is a large two-tier open space with metal chairs, tables, a ping pong table, and a row of payphones. Showers are on each side.

"So this is kind of their life," Benson said. "So we have to occupy their time. You can see some of them put puzzles together, some of them play chess. This becomes their world."

The new money approved by the legislature will fund a 100,000-square-foot addition to the Moose Lake treatment facility. It will include a new dining area, additional treatment rooms, and security offices.

The improvements will allow Moose Lake keep pace with a growing population of sex offenders. Officials figure it will give them the room they need to provide treatment -- but just for two years.

Benson said about half of patients participated in treatment a few years ago, but today 90 percent do.

In part that is because patients can make progress by graduating to St. Peter, the state's other sex offender treatment facility, he said. It offers a new treatment stage that prepares patients for release.

"That's the final stage of treatment," Benson said. "We now have five people that the courts have placed in that program and that's brand new in the last two years. ... So I think that's given a lot of hope to these folks.

No one knows when or if someone in the treatment program will be released. Until that happens, the population of civilly committed people will only grow. And the cost to taxpayers will grow with it.

Is Double Bunking Constitutional?

2010-03-31T05:06:00.000-07:00

Latest article by Mr. Krych, dated 3/14/10, entitled "Is double Bunking Constitutional?"

What will be MSOP's future direction?

2010-03-31T05:03:00.000-07:00

Here is an article by Mr. Krych entitled "What will be MSOP's future direction?" As always, click on the article picture to read it.

Some people in civil commitment do not belong there

2010-03-30T17:01:00.000-07:00

Here is another commentary by Mr. Krych, in his own words. As always, click on the picture to enlarge it.

Chris: letter to the editor, Star-Tribune

2010-03-16T18:05:00.001-07:00

Below is a letter Mr. Krych wrote to the editor of the Star-Tribune. Click on the image below to read it in its entirety.

Gov. making "palace" for civilly committed

2010-03-11T10:00:00.000-08:00

I hope Chris doesn't mind me posting this, since it is news on his camp. I'm sure he can give a different view of what is really happening.

http://wcco.com/local/sex.offender.treatment.2.1552157.html

But they're cutting way back on the project Gov. Tim Pawlenty wants most: a sex offender treatment facility. Some lawmakers say it is way too luxurious. In fact, they are calling it "Pawlenty's Palace" for sex offenders. The number of civilly committed sex offenders skyrocketed after ex-con Alfonso Rodriquez murdered college student Dru Sjodin. But lawmakers say the governor's proposing "a palace" to confine them. "It seems so unreal," said State Sen. Keith Langseth, DFL-Glyndon, who describes Pawlenty's proposed $89 million facility as "more than a Cadillac plan ... it's a Mercedes, maybe." Langseth, who's the chairman of the powerful Capitol Investments Committee which approves construction projects, calls the Moose Lake plans too excessive and too luxurious.

Civil commitment center might finally release some prisoners

2010-02-17T04:41:00.000-08:00

I don't know if Chris will be one of those people, but under Constitutional and media scrutiny, it seems Minnesota may finally release some civilly committed individuals.

http://www.jordannews.com/news/city-politics/sex-offender-treatment-facility-could-soon-release-some-offenders-102

In the 14 years since the program opened a facility in Moose Lake to treat civilly committed sex offenders, none have been released.

This could change soon, as approximately six offenders are expected to be returned to their communities fairly soon, Scott County Human Services Director Tim Walsh told county commissioners last week. One may live in Scott County.

Please Help an American Citizen!

2010-02-08T21:09:00.001-08:00

Below is a five page letter Mr. Krych wished to share with the American People. Below is an account of the trials of one civilly committed prisoner in his OWN words. Click on the page for a larger page.