Category: OCEAN Newsletter

The below is OCEAN Newsletter Volume 1, Issue 8, Article 1 (Jan. 8, 2020) published by Russell J. Hatton & Daniel A. Wilson from the gulag in Moose Lake Minnesota. The following was adapted for civil commitment detainees. It was inspired by pages 81-83 of Viktor E. Frankl’s, Man’s Search for Meaning. Frankl survived the infamous Nazi death camp, Auschwitz: God knows, I am not in the mood to give psychological explanations or to preach any sermons-to offer my comrades a kind of medical care of their souls. I am irritable and tired, frustrated and angry. But I have to make…

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The below is OCEAN Newsletter Volume 1, Issue 7, Article 5 (Dec. 23, 2019) published by Russell J. Hatton & Daniel A. Wilson from the gulag in Moose Lake Minnesota. Current MSOP Director Nancy Johnston and Reintegration Specialist Scott Halverson paid a first time visit, [1st of its kind in 2 5 years] to its secure site in Moose Lake. It took all I could to sit through that God awful “Reintegration Roadshow.” I maintained an open mind and listened wholeheartedly to every word Nancy and Scott spoke. I could not help but sense that their words were meant for a…

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The below is OCEAN Newsletter Volume 1, Issue 7, Article 4 (Dec. 23, 2019) published by Russell J. Hatton & Daniel A. Wilson from the gulag in Moose Lake Minnesota. Note: Some citations were omitted in this article because they are in the original document: Creating Civil Commitment Chaos, by MSOP lawyers in collaboration with OCEAN MSOP clients should not have to sift through legal jargon and political bureaucracy to understand the laws that govern their treatment. However, we are compelled to try. In this article we are going to explain how MSOP circumvents the law to keep people committed, even…

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The below is OCEAN Newsletter Volume 1, Issue 7, Article 3 (Dec. 23, 2019) published by Russell J. Hatton & Daniel A. Wilson from the gulag in Moose Lake Minnesota.   On December 2, 2 013 a federal court ordered the Sex Offender Civil Commitment Advisory Task Force to be charged with examining certain specific aspects of Minnesota’s process for the civil commitment of sex offenders. The Task Force was directed to provide recommended legislative proposals to the Commissioner of Human Services on the following three topics: A. The civil commitment and referral process for sex offenders; B. Sex offender civil…

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The below is OCEAN Newsletter Volume 1, Issue 7, Article 2 (Dec. 23, 2019) published by Russell J. Hatton & Daniel A. Wilson from the gulag in Moose Lake Minnesota.   If the state authorities are going to keep us locked up forever, they are at least going to know how we’re getting along. <The term Detainee is more fitting than detainee> The thoughts of a committed man Here’s a story of a journey called: Life. It starts on a farm; a mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. “What…

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The below is OCEAN Newsletter Volume 1, Issue 7, Article 1 (Dec. 23, 2019) published by Russell J. Hatton & Daniel A. Wilson from the gulag in Moose Lake Minnesota.   On December 11, 2019 the Executive Director of MSOP came to talk about Provisional Discharge (PD). Obviously, there will be many restrictions for those released on PD. For those that don’t know, PD is basically parole. Currently 23 out of 731 detainees are on PD. This is an improvement because in the first 20 years of MSOP’s existence , there were none. Things are slowly changing, but work still needs…

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The below is OCEAN Newsletter Volume 1, Issue 6, Article 5 (Nov. 25, 2019) published by Russell J. Hatton & Daniel A. Wilson from the gulag in Moose Lake Minnesota.    Psychologists study the behavior of humans, and the main purpose of this research is to help us understand people and to improve the quality of human lives. Basic research is research that answers fundamental questions about behavior. Applied research is research that investigates issues that have implications for everyday life and provides solutions to everyday problems. Basic research and Applied research inform each other, and advances in science occur more…

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The below is OCEAN Newsletter Volume 1, Issue 6, Article 4 (Nov. 25, 2019) published by Russell J. Hatton & Daniel A. Wilson from the gulag in Moose Lake Minnesota.   When you are indeterminately civilly committed, there is data and information that is authored and maintained about you by others and the committing court maintains data regarding your “Findings of Facts.” Also, the Minnesota Department of Human Services maintains data post-commitment, relative to your admission and detention at MSOP. While at the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP) you are given Quarterly Reports, Annual Reports and Annual Mental Health Assessments. This…

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The below is OCEAN Newsletter Volume 1, Issue 6, Article 3 (Nov. 25, 2019) published by Russell J. Hatton & Daniel A. Wilson from the gulag in Moose Lake Minnesota.   If the state authorities are going to keep us locked up forever, they are at least going to know how we’re getting along. <The term Detainee is more fitting than client> This weeks “detainee” is not an MSOP detainee at all, but a former detainee of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Born in Vienna in 1905, Psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankl survived to tell of the horrors of his experience in Nazi…

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