[Note: Friends of Justice is a personal blog. I speak only for myself.]
Bill Dobbs of The Dobbs Wire sent us links to videos of a conference that took place in St. Paul, Minnesota on April 8, 2022: the eighth annual Understanding and Responding to Mass Incarceration (URMI) Conference. This year’s conference focused on the Minnesota Sex Offender Program — almost certainly the worst in the nation.
People convicted of sex offenses in Minnesota, regardless of the offense, receive life sentences. Supposedly they can be released if they successfully complete “treatment.” But no one ever does.
Treatment that can’t be completed is treatment that doesn’t work. And treatment that doesn’t work is not treatment.
Here are the videos:
