It's a Hoax. Part III

The more I think about Minnesota's Sex Offender Program, the more absurd it seems to me.  Continuing my rant on the MSOP... 

QUESTION #2:  Who Works At MSOP?

For starters, there are guards or correctional officers or psych assistants, whatever they call them, presumably locals. I understand that the farm land around Moose Lake is poor, and that anyone trying to ram needs a part time job to support his farming addiction. I got no beef with them...no pun intended.

But the state's pretense of psychiatric treatment surely requires the presense of a few doctors, nurses, or social workers - people with the credential to call themselves "Mental Health Professionals."

• Dr. Michael Famsworth, who apprently designed MSOP in 1993 ("offering sex offenders the opprtunity to participate in high quality treatment to enhance re-entry to society") resigned in protest in 2003, finally figuring out that the state would never allow anyone to leave the program alive. One might questions why it took Farnsworth 9 years to do the right thing.
  

• I know that questions have been raised about ethics of psychologists involved in the torture of detainees at Guantanamo (psychiatrists have been refusing Guantanamo duty).  I have similar questions about ethics of "mental health professional, from any discipline, working in such an obviously fraudulent "treatment" program.
  

FINALLY, QUESTION #3:  Does MSOP create a safer society?

In the short-run, maybe.  The guy who murdered a 12 year old seems scary.

But I don't think the people who wrote and passed the Bill of Rights (of course, it would never pass today) would have approved of a system patterned after the Soviet Gulag, as Solzhenitsyn can attest.

No one has ever been discharged so how do we know that anyone has been effectively treated?  Or are we all disillusioned to think that this program will CURE sex offenders?  The better question is whether we, as a society feel better now that these "dangerous" people are hidden away...seemingly forever?

Can't we just agree to treat crimes as crimes and mental illness as the medical problem it really is?