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 ...

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.

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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 ...

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 ...

MOOSE LAKE, Minn. — An inmate at Moose Lake's Minnesota Sex Offender Program facility was charged Wednesday after allegedly assaulting a staff member, sending the victim to the hospital. Charging ...

A federal judge on Wednesday issued a sharply worded order requiring state officials to provide remedies to fix flaws in the Minnesota Sex Offender Program. Judge Donovan Frank ruled in June that the ...

Fifty clients in the more advanced stages of treatment are being moved from the MSOP campus in Moose Lake, a rural town of roughly 2,700 in northeastern Minnesota, to the St. Peter sex offender ...

MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. - A sex offender with a history of child sexual assault will be moving to Mendota Heights, according to police. A court decision earlier this year allowed the discharge of Kirk ...

State officials are asking the Minnesota Legislature for $17.8 million to renovate Minnesota Sex Offender Program buildings inside the St. Peter Regional Treatment Center. The Minnesota Department of ...

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 ...