Sex Offender Released from Minnesota’s Controversial Program

The upcoming release of a twice-convicted rapist from Minnesota’s sex offender treatment program to a halfway house reflects a loosening of the state’s process for freeing patients.

Oliver Dority, 50, was convicted of raping two women within three weeks of each other in 1995.

He’s the latest in a growing number of violent sex offenders who have been approved for conditional release since the Minnesota Sex Offender Program came under federal scrutiny.

Six offenders, including Dority, have been conditionally discharged from the program in just over a year.