Further proof that, the state has no real interest in treating sex offender even in civil commitment (see highlights), or the professional suggestions of treatment professionals.
10-23-2009 Minnesota:
Veterans homes get TVs from Moose Lake facility
ST. PAUL, Minn. - 13 flat-screen TVs Gov. Tim Pawlenty ordered removed from the Minnesota sex offender treatment facility in Moose Lake are headed for veterans homes.
On his radio show Friday, Pawlenty said the 50-inch TVs are bound for veterans homes in Minneapolis, Fergus Falls, Hastings and Silver Bay. Pawlenty said discipline is still being discussed for employees involved in the purchase.
"Every once in a while someone makes a mistake in judgment," Pawlenty said. "This was clearly a bonehead decision."
The Department of Human Services said 90 percent of patients already have TVs in their rooms, but the facility installed two dozen 50-inch plasma TVs in common areas at a cost of more than $2,200 each.
The executive director of the sex offender treatment program, Dennis Benson, defended the TVs. Benson told the Star Tribune that the TVs have clinical value because patients can be watched to see how they respond to what's on TV. Program officials said the TVs also concentrate patients in one spot, making them easier to monitor at a time when staffing has been reduced.
Pawlenty says the sex offenders can make do with smaller TVs.
The remaining TVs are likely to be sold.
Sold? They are now used TVs so they will be sold at a loss, and I wonder who will be buying them? Could it be state employees?..Source.. by FOX9.com
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