Earlier, we told you about Minnesota's Moose Lake Sex Offenders Program, which lost 24 of its new 50-inch plasma TVs. Now, WKBT.com reports that some of those TVs will go to the Minnesota Guard. From the article:
Eight of the flat-screen TVs removed from a Minnesota sex offender treatment facility on Gov. Tim Pawlenty's orders will go to Minnesota National Guard facilities.
The state Department of Administration said Wednesday that Camp Ripley, near Brainerd, will get six of the 50-inch plasma televisions that prompted Pawlenty's ire last week. The Guard's Minneapolis and Duluth airbases will also each get one.
Pawlenty called for discipline for whoever authorized buying 26 TVs costing $1,500 each, plus $700 mounting brackets, for the Moose Lake sex offender facility. The Department of Human Services is investigating.
The governor previously announced that 14 TVs will wind up in state veterans homes.
Administration Department spokesman Jim Schwartz said the four remaining televisions will either be used for yet-to-be-determined public purposes or sold.
So I guess the governor doesn't think 50-inch plasma televisions are essential to the treatment of sex offenders? I would probably agree.
Posted by: Joe | November 03, 2009 at 09:18 PM
People actually think people are being "treated" in these civil commitment facilities? Odd.
Another way to look at it is if criminal governments are going to illegally imprison people against their will and only because they MIGHT do something, then perhaps the governments should provide just a small subset of some of the typical creature comforts that those people would be able to attain if they were not being imprisoned. It's not like the places are prisons.
I fully expect that most of the people who are being imprisoned in this facility are not people who I would prefer having as a neighbor. But I would even say that about anyone who has not committed a single sexual offense but does have a rap sheet of other crimes. But we don't even bother Registering those people, do we? Anyway, even though I would prefer not to have these people as neighbors, I will not sacrifice for a second any of the Americans ideals that used to make this country a great one. You see, I don't believe in harassing people just because we can and it makes us feel good.
Do we civilly commit any other classes of former criminals? I don't know but I doubt it.
*** Restore American decency - repeal moronic "sex offender" laws ***
Posted by: ieee | November 04, 2009 at 09:08 PM