[Vision2020] Kevin Coe Didn't do his time

[keely emerinemix]

Thanks, Tom.  The problem I have with Coe's time at McNeil is that he steadfastly refuses to acknowledge that he's done anything wrong, and he refuses treatment.  At best, McNeil will, however non-punitively, simly be able to contain and manage a propensity for evil that Coe refuses to acknowledge.

Keely
http://keely-prevailingwinds.blogspot.com/


> To: ophite at gmail.com; donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com; vision2020 at moscow.com; fotopro63 at hotmail.com
> From: thansen at moscow.com
> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:18:17 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Kevin Coe Didn't do his time
> 
> Andreas stated:
> 
> " . . . if we're going to treat it [civil commitment] as a civil adjunct 
> to the criminal justice process, it has to be therapeutic rather than 
> punitive."
> 
> The McNeil Island Special Treatment Center falls under the purview and 
> management of the Washington State Department of Social and Health 
> Services, NOT the state correctional system.
> 
> The treatment provided to resident patients of the center is detailed on 
> their website at:
> 
> http://www1.dshs.wa.gov/hrsa/scc/TreatmentProgram.htm
> 
> Fukrthermore,
> 
> "Each Special Commitment Center (SCC) resident has a right to an annual 
> review hearing before the court of commitment to evaluate the resident’s 
> progress in treatment.  If the court finds that the resident has made 
> progress to the point that the resident can be safely managed in the 
> community, the court may order the resident’s conditional release to a 
> less restrictive alternative(LRA) community placement."
> 
> "Conditional Release" is explained on the center's website at:
> 
> http://www1.dshs.wa.gov/hrsa/scc/ConditionalRelease.htm
> 
> The "less restrictive alternative" is fukrther explained on the center's 
> website at:
> 
> http://www1.dshs.wa.gov/hrsa/scc/LRA.htm
> 
> It is my impression that the McNeil Island Special Treatment Center is NOT 
> the "Devils Island" you portray it to be.
> 
> A brief history of McNeil Island is accessible from Wikipedia at:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNeil_Island
>  
> "It was named in 1841 by Charles Wilkes during the United States Exploring 
> Expedition in honor of Captain William Henry McNeill of the Hudson's Bay 
> Company. McNeill was at Fort Nisqually in 1841 and greeting Wilkes upon 
> arrival in southern Puget Sound.
> 
> The Robert A. Inskip expedition of 1846 named the island Duntze, after 
> Captain John A. Duntze of the Royal Navy. In 1847, during the British map 
> reorganization project, Henry Kellett restored the earlier name McNeil.[2]
> 
> The United States government bought land on McNeil Island in 1870 and 
> opened a federal penitentiary there in 1875. Its most famous inmate was 
> probably Robert Stroud, the "Birdman of Alcatraz," who was held there from 
> 1909 to 1912. By 1937 the federal government, which had been accumulating 
> parcels of land adjacent to the penitentiary, had purchased all the land 
> on the island and compelled its last residents to leave. Charles Manson 
> was an inmate from 1961 to 1966 for trying to cash a government check.
> 
> Washington state took over the penitentiary from the federal government in 
> 1981. It is now called McNeil Island Corrections Center (MICC). The state 
> claims, erroneously, that it has been a territorial, federal, and state 
> prison. In fact it was never a territorial institution, the territorial 
> penitentiary was first located at Seatco (now Bucoda), then relocated to 
> Walla Walla (where it stands to this day as the state penitentiary). It is 
> the only prison left in North America that is only accessible by boat or 
> air. It is presently the site of the state's primary Special Commitment 
> Center (SCC), where sexually violent predators are committed for treatment 
> after completing their standard prison sentences."
> 
> Granted, it isn't exactly Coronado Island (with its four-star hotel and 
> amenities in southern California), but the Special Treatment Center is 
> geared toward treatment, not punishment.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
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