Category: The Legal Pad

The below came from The Legal Pad, Volume 4, Issue 5 (May, 2020), published by Cyrus Gladden from the gulag in Moose Lake, Minnesota.  Editor’s Note: Nothing shows how dangerous a killer Covid-19 can be as clearly as does news of others like us dying from it in other sex offender civil commitment (“SOCC”) facilities. These victims are all I know of at this time. Expect more reports later.  Massachusetts Estes & V. Coleman, “Judge Frees Vulnerable Massachusetts Treatment Center Inmate after Roommate Dies: State Officials Confirm Two Coronavirus Deaths at Bridgewater Prison,” Boston Globe, April 3, 2020.  Text excerpts:  “A superior…

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The below came from The Legal Pad, Volume 4, Issue 5 (May, 2020), published by Cyrus Gladden from the gulag in Moose Lake, Minnesota.  Editor’s Introduction: Only recently (taking a cue from the favorable SCOTUS decision in Packingham) have courts begun to take the free speech, free press, and free thought guarantees of the First Amendment seriously when it comes t~ sex offenders. Prior to that, complaints by sex offenders – especially those confined in SOCC facilities.:_ were regularly dismissed without serious examination. Worse, some adverse decisions actually further sequentially eroded those rights.  As a result, SOCC facilities came to believe that…

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The below came from The Legal Pad, Volume 4, Issue 3 (March, 2020), p. 1 0, published by Cyrus Gladden from the gulag in Moose Lake, Minnesota.  Employment opportunities for Ex-Cons May Extend to SOs  Heather Higginbottom, “People with Criminal Records Deserve a Second Chance – and Business Can Help Provide it,” The Hill, posted 11/05/19 (Note: Higginbottom is a spokesperson for JPMorgan Chase.)  In August, the Business Roundtable issued a statement, signed by nearly 200 of the nation’s top chief executives, proclaiming that for the economy to work for more people, business cannot serve just its shareholders. Business must do…

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The below came from The Legal Pad, Volume 4, Issue 3 (March, 2020), p. 1, published by Cyrus Gladden from the gulag in Moose Lake, Minnesota.  When Is a Court Order Not an Order? Pre-Release Placement, Of Course! – So Says State AG.  By Cyrus Gladden  Shane Garry is one of the many confinees in MSOP, Minnesota’s sex-offender commitment program (these explanations for our readers elsewhere).  After years of treatment, Garry petitioned for transfer to a pre-release unit known as the “Community Preparation Services” (“CPS”) unit. By Order of the Commitment Appeal Panel (“CAP”) dated Jan. 24, 2018, CAP granted…

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The article below came from The Legal Pad, Volume 4, Issue 3 (March  2020), pp. 8-1 0, published by Cyrus Gladden from the gulag in Moose Lake, Minnesota.  Instead of replicating text excerpts, refer to the previously posted articles: Part I Part II Part III 

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The below came from The Legal Pad, Volume 4, Issue 3 (March, 2020), pp. 2-3, published by Cyrus Gladden from the gulag in Moose Lake, Minnesota.  SOCCPN 2018 Survey of SO Commitment Programs  By Cyrus Gladden  In 2018, a non-governmental organization called “Sex Offender Civil Commitment Programs Network” (“SOCCPN”) issued the latest in a periodic series of surveys of the overall state of sex-offender commitment facilities and their treatment programs. The following excerpts from that Annual 2018 SOCCPN Survey may prove of particular interest. Perhaps most startling of all, see the charts following these short excerpts. Those charts will put…

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  The below came from The Legal Pad, Volume 4, Issue 3 (March, 2020), p. 2, published by Cyrus Gladden from the gulag in Moose Lake, Minnesota. MSOP-ML in Facility-Wide Quarantine Due to Influenza Outbreak  By Cyrus Gladden  On Thursday, February 27, 2020, the MSOP-Moose Lake facility was placed on facility­ wide quarantine due to the virulent spread of influenza to many . within the facility over the preceding days. This move was made following the earlier and still-ongoing quarantine of two residence units for the same reason. Those two units are contained within the older (Main”) building in MSOP-ML…

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The article below came from The Legal Pad, Volume 4, Issue 3 (March 2020), pp. 3-8, published by Cyrus Gladden from the gulag in Moose Lake, Minnesota.  Excerpt from title rough draft “Master Document” By Cyrus Gladden  Meaninglessness of and Lack of Protection from the Act’s Terms, “Impulse” and “Lack of Control”. The Supreme Court spoke in Kansas v. Crane, 534 US 407,413, 151 L Ed 2d 856, 122 S Ct 867-(2002), of the need for “serious difficulty” controlling one’s “behavior.” Mary Prescott, “Invasion of the Body Snatchers: Civil Commitment after Adam Walsh,” 71 U. Pitt L. Rev. 839, 851…

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