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Men at Moose Lake sex offender facility end 2-week hunger strike The sex offenders in the program are demanding a "clear path" for release from the facility, and state officials have agreed to discuss that with them. Author: A group of men at the Minnesota Sex Offender Program's Moose Lake facility have ended their hunger strike after nearly two weeks. The group went on strike Jan. 21, demanding a "clear path" for release from the program, which has facilities in Moose Lake and St. Peter, where "treatment is a death sentence" because despite serving their prison sentences, they're remanded to...

Retrospect. you can also connect the dots when you look back on it but even at the time the things that we did know in realtime were that there were as you say 39 calls to the house for domestic violence with some sort of disruption, from 2011 to 2016. that's a small span of time for so much disruption. he was expelled from school and before he was expelled not even allowed to carry a backpack because the school was concerned about weapons and apparently he had shown bullets. he has discussed guns and showed pictures of dead animals to classmates, everybody had a sense that this young man was ...

Alternative home, people agreed to take him in, a friend, but is this something that would be triggered by medical profession if he had one and didn't need to have one or can people at school or in law enforcement do the committing? >> i believe from for a minor they can all approach a judge in context of question of civil action, civil commitment, maybe not in an institution necessarily but at least requirement that he go to mental health care. he was in a clinic for a while but he dropped out. now, were they -- was there attitude, well, he's troubled but we don't have to worry so much, or we...

Retrospect. you can almost connect the dots. even at the time the things that we did know in real time with that there were 39 calls to the house for to mistake violence in some sort of disruption from 2011 to may 2016. that's a small span of time. he was expelled from school and before he was expelled he was not even allowed to carry a backpack because the school was concerned about weapons and apparently he showed bullets. he discussed guns and showed pictures of dead in most of his classmates. everybody had a sense that this young man was quite disturbed. we don't all the details. what do p...