A Minnesota court has ordered the first-ever full and unconditional discharge from Minnesota's sex offender treatment program, choosing a young man who has spent the past six years in state ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - A state appeals court is considering whether to release a serial rapist from the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP). Thomas Ray Duvall was civilly committed as a sexual ...

Twenty states authorize civil commitment of sex offenders who have completed their criminal sentences but are deemed too dangerous for release. Minnesota, which deploys that option against a larger ...

Two men charged with felony bribery at the Minnesota Sexual Offender Program in Moose Lake have been sentenced in a case that involved a client paying an employee $3,000 to smuggle in a cellphone.

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Human Services Commissioner Lucinda Jesson took the witness stand in federal court Friday to defend the state's efforts to treat patients who've been civilly committed to the ...

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The Minnesota Legislature was able to accomplish many tasks over its last few sessions, but one issue that it failed to adequately address is the Minnesota Sex Offender Program. Many individuals ...

A federal appeals court in St. Louis heard oral arguments Tuesday about whether the state of Minnesota's sex offender treatment program violates the Constitution with its practice of indefinite ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday affirmed a decision to grant a man's provisional discharge from the state's treatment program for sex offenders, saying the program leader ...

Overruling objections from several public officials, a state appeals court panel has cleared the way for the possible release of a convicted rapist, Christopher R. Coker, from the Minnesota Sex ...

One week after an assault in the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP), another incident at the facility in Moose Lake. Carlton County Sheriff Kelly Lake said Monday her office did receive a report ...