On Monday, the Yale Daily News ran an advertisement in the print paper reading, “Pen Pal wanted, incarcerated, treated as subhuman, remind me I’m human, write.” At the time of publication, the News did not know that the man who placed the advertisement was committed to the Minnesota Sex Offender Program in 1998 after being declared a “Sexually Dangerous Person” under the state’s law following multiple sex abuse incidents against child victims, according to a Dakota County District Court file. According to U.S. District Court documents, he was denied release in part because he refused to participate in sex-offender treatment, regularly threatened and assaulted MSOP staff, and presented a high risk of reoffending. 

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