UPDATE OF REFLECTIONS ON CIVIL COMMITMENT
By PREACHER’S WIFE

Today I am presenting an update to the blog of January 03, 2023. I wrote of a client of the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP) and the events occurring on New Year’s Day.
Clients wore T-shirts proclaiming End MSOP. They were ordered to remove them or suffer disciplinary measures. This was ordered due to a facility rule that no one is allowed to speak, discuss, or wear anything negative to the MSOP confinement. This is in direct opposition to the First Amendment, but it is the case in almost if not al l the state civil commitment centers, the First Amendment means nothing nor does anything else pertaining to civil rights. There were 3 clients who only received a Behavioral Expectation Report (BER) for refusing but there was 1 more client who refused to remove his shirt and for that refusal he was then beaten, strapped to a board face down with his pants pulled down and his buttocks exposed for all to see including the female guards and causing the client to feel embarrassed.
He was then taken to the High Security Area (the Hole) where the security staff cut and ripped his clothing from him and searched his privates at least 6 times. The client now feels that he was sexually assaulted. The client was then laid on the floor face down and naked with his eyes closed for some time after the staff left, while he continued to be cuffed. When his next meal of spaghetti was brought, he was forced to eat from the bowl with his fingers as eating utensils were not forthcoming. This client was forced to remain in the Hole for five days. All of this for wearing a T-shirt that expressed an opinion/desire.
Can you imagine being part of a group or crowd at the mall or some other event wearing a T-shirt that stated, “I don’t like rainy days” and being told to remove it because it offended the people in the group/crowd? You refuse to comply and now must pay the price of abuse of someone in charge of so-called security. You as would I, and the majority of people, would refuse based on the First Amendment allowing free speech. The shirt was not pornographic, insulting or filled with hatred or racism only a personal opinion. How long will Americans hide from the obvious and continue to say, “let John, Jane or my neighbor take care of the problem while I remain a spectator?”
UPDATE ON TEXAS CIVIL COMMITMENT STORY
This story happened on Christmas Eve weekend.
The latest news from Littlefield, Texas regarding no more food from visitors to residents to take back to their cells. In the past week there were two disciplinary cases written against two residents for speaking to someone other than their mother during the visits on Christmas Eve. The other residents and visitors visited with each other and those residents did not receive a disciplinary action. The two men were also accused of being the people taking food back to their living area and sharing it with those residents who were not able to have a Christmas visit. Discrimination dominates the mind and operations of the facility.
A new policy Is now to take effect in February. The policy states that all visitors must bring food to the unit in clear plastic bags. This policy is only posted on a wall in the facility. Visitors are not being made aware of the changes except as told to them by their loved one of should they think to ask when making an appointment to visit. For a visit, the visitor must call before 5 p.m. on Monday and will be told that they will receive an answer to the request on Wednesday. Sometimes the answer is as late as Friday afternoon. This makes it a hardship for those visitors travelling over 100 miles or with plans to spend the full weekend. Visits are planned to be cut to only two hours for each day. It remains to be seen if this will occur. No doubt the unit would like to turn away all visits and operate as they choose.
Residents have been told the change is due to the fact that security doesn’t have the time to inspect all the food and the receipts that must accompany all of the items brought into the facility. There will no longer be food even in sealed packages for the resident to take to his living quarters. Residents may still purchase five items from the two vending machines located in the visiting room. One machine contains only chips, cookies, and candy while the other one is for drinks only. The machines are usually more empty than full as they are accessible to all the employed staff.
Regarding the use of the ankle monitors at Littlefield, the bystander disciplinary rule is still in effect. There have been no new policies posted for the use of the monitors and the rules for the necessity of applying them at will or as security deems necessary.
A story from New Jersey reports that before the holidays, the security staff selected certain housing units to “search”. During the search the clients/residents were removed from the housing area and made to wait and watch as the officers searched their living area. When the client/resident returned to his house, he found that it had not only been searched but vandalized. In some instances where a person had legal mail that was not subject to a search, it was separated and thrown all over the floors, along with food items, clothing, hygiene items, and personal items. After the men were allowed to return to their housing, they were given two hours to clean up, pack up and be ready to move to another area.
The vandalizing has slowed down, but the searches continue. Even when no contraband has been found the individual(s) will still be subjected to the whims of the security staff.
It is the wish of this writer that these were only imaginary stories drawn from a creative mind rather than the very cold, very hard truth. These are but a few of the atrocities occurring daily in all the civil commitment centers. These stories and more are but a few of the horrendous acts in all 20-state treatment centers (Shadow Prisons), the Federal Government and the District of Columbia.
It has been reported that the current Mayor of New York City now wants the homeless and those that cannot take care of themselves (elderly, children, etc.) to be committed to civil commitment centers. Should this occur what’s next, committing smokers, coffee drinkers and such. It has become so easy to be one of the sheep and follow the wolves.

Thank you for your valuable time to read this blog and hear the voice of the voiceless, those who do not have a way to tell of their abuse, pain, and suffering. These men need your help to let the world know of their enduring injustice.