Since 2012, Minnesota has spent $1.3 billion on an illusion of safety

By: Eric Janus

Outlets: Minnesota Reformer

Published: May 27, 2026

Words: 594

Last Updated: 1 month, 4 weeks ago

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The Minnesota Sex Offender Program is expensive. In the last 14 years, it has cost us $1.3 billion. For that price tag, taxpayers should expect robust public safety benefits, but that’s not what we’ve gotten.

MSOP is a civil commitment program designed to provide treatment, behind double razor wire, after people convicted of sex offenses have finished their prison sentences. It is supposed to rehabilitate. But in its more than 30-year history, nearly 1,000 people …

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