Smoke and Mirrors…House Committee for Corrections Testimony

Get your boots out…maybe your waders. Marsha McLane starts her testimony at 1:25:00 on the video. Get the committee members names and start calling!!

Senate Committee on Finance

TACC wants to thank everyone that came out to speak for the men at TCCC. Your constant awareness building will bring change. Please continue to be squeaky wheels that will build to eventually drown out the lies and and bring light to the civil injustices at TCCC, TCCO, and MTC! https://tlcsenate.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=53&clip_id=17253

DEATHS IN CIVIL COMMITMENT

We’re bored and our life is uncertain. Holidays are short and empty. We’re overwhelmed with meaningless busy work and feel like rats in a maze trying to find our way out. People die here. Not like what is expected in prison or hospitals, but in exile. A death from the program where treatment is not

i’ll be glad when christmas is over

by punkie 2017 when christmas is overi won’t have to pretendto feel jolly and brightwhen I’m empty within i’ve no brothers or sistersmy family’s all gonethere’s nothing but darknesswhere once the sun shone what’s that you say?be of good cheer?how can I? who would?i cry through my tears my friends all have childrenor parents or

Locked Up For Good—Or Forgotten?

Minnesota has the highest per-capita commitment rate of sex offenders nationwide, and one of the lowest release rates Minnesota Monthly: John Rosengren; April 19, 2022 The Minnesota Sex Offender Program housed at Moose Lake is tucked away in the woods, off State Highway 73, about 120 miles north of Minneapolis. The high-security facility surrounded by fences

Too Hot to Handle

TACC-Texans Against Civil Commitment: Moosejaw72; July 19, 2022 This week 108 degrees. And 103 degrees. And 98 degrees, 96 degrees, 100, 101, 100. Now imagine no air conditioning. No way to cool down. No fans. No windows to open or doors to prop open for natural air flow. Imagine now that you have absolutely no way

FOR ALL THE MOTHERS

May 7, 2022 Today I would like to set aside the resentment, frustration, disappointment and hopelessness that comes with civil commitment and talk about the one subject that brings joy and hope to my life, and that is my Mom.  Today I want to honor all the mothers, be it our sisters, grandmothers, girlfriends, or

Freedom on Earth?

Written by a Current Resident at TCCC I’m a 40-year-old Hispanic male. I was 17 when I caught my first case in 1989. I got another charge in 1990 when I was 18 years old. I ended up plea bargaining for 60 years aggravated assault. If I wouldn’t have done that, I would’ve been facing

The Dobbs Wire: Do we need the sex offense registry?

Counting registrants, family members and significant others, the number of people directly impacted by sex offense registration laws in the U.S. is estimated at several million.  Every state has had a registry for at least 25 years and politicians continually push for  harsher registration requirements.  These are all good reasons to question the registry.  David

Another request for your help from supporters of the civil commits at Moose Lake

New DOC threats against a leader of the non-violent protests against civil commitment facility at Moose Lake, Minnesota. First Daniel Wilson and a dozen others civil commits were placed in the disciplinary unit at Moose Lake without any due process for their protests against Minnesota’s civil commitment program. Now, Charlie Sullivan of National CURE informs us that