sex offender program

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The state Appeals Court is affirming a judicial panel's decision to grant a man's provisional discharge from the Minnesota Sex Offender Program.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The state Court of Appeals has upheld a judicial panel's decision to provisionally release a man from the Minnesota Sex Offender Program.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — State attorneys defending the Minnesota sex offender confinement program are urging a judge to exercise restraint when ordering fixes to a system he ruled is unconstitutional.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has denied a media request to open up a private meeting about the future of Minnesota's civil commitment program for sex offenders.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Mark Dayton says he is willing to postpone his trade mission to Mexico to appear in a federal court over the state's embattled sex offender treatment program.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Top administrators for Minnesota's sex offender treatment program say it lacks the staff and funding for regular evaluations and, that as a result, they don't know if some men confined for years still deserve to be held in high-security treatment centers.