Parolee in Treatment Faces Prison-Time Again for Exposing Fraud
Daniel Aaron Wilson, Raj | Saturday, September 27th, 2025
I am a patient in a secure treatment facility. The clinical department believes I have violated the conditions of my parole. On September 30, 2025 the Department of Corrections will consider the alleged violations and determine whether or not I will be sent back to prison.
The Real Reason They Want Me in Prison
Before I describe the allegations and provide a defense for each one I need to make one thing clear: the attempt to put me in prison is an attempt to suppress information about the treatment facility. Todd Kuusisto, an employee at the treatment facility, wrote a letter to my parole agent on September 16, 2025. In the letter, Kuusisto expresses concern over my online "advertising campaign" to expose fraud at the facility - specifically in the clinical department. In addition, internal communications reveal facility employees alerting each other of my attempt to identify and expose fraud within the program:
...I Security Counselor Henry Collier, overheard Client Dan Wilson speaking on the phone about the state of the facility, with him claiming there was potential "medical fraud." He also claimed that most clinicians were in fact, "unlicensed interns."... He also [said] something to the effect that, "there is so much concern over state fraud," and that "it was important to get the word out". Client Wilson expressed... that he "was working with a couple of guys" to potentially determine if fraud had taken place…
...I Security Counselor Henry Collier, overheard Client Dan Wilson speaking on the phone about the state of the facility, with him claiming there was potential "medical fraud." He also claimed that most clinicians were in fact, "unlicensed interns."... He also [said] something to the effect that, "there is so much concern over state fraud," and that "it was important to get the word out". Client Wilson expressed... that he "was working with a couple of guys" to potentially determine if fraud had taken place…
What They Don't Want the Public to See
Below are the publications they don't want the public to see and where they can be found:
I was already sent to prison back in October of 2024 for distributing A Genuine Response to the Fallout from the Article Titled. "Everyone Who Supports MSOP, Supports Sexual Violence - Including Me" and the Resistance Manifesto. Now they want to send me back for distributing the Common Sense Kids, the Mitchell Hamline report, the Stop Sexual Violence Teal Ribbon and the Hit Your Target political cartoon.² In addition, they want to suppress the Shadow Prison Dead List.
- A Genuine Response to the Fallout from the Article Titled: "Everyone Who Supports MSOP Supports Sexual Violence-Including Me" (in the appendix)
- Resistance Manifesto (online)
- The Common Sense Kids (in the appendix)
- The Shadow Prison Dead List¹ (in the appendix)
- Stop Sexual Violence Teal Ribbon (in the appendix)
- The Hit Your Target political cartoon (in the appendix)
- Sex Offense Civil Commitment: Minnesota's Failed Investment and the $100 Million Opportunity to Stop Sexual Violence. (AKA: Mitchell Hamline report) (online)
- The "advertising campaign" as mentioned in Todd Kuusisto's letter to my parole officer. (the END MSOP Facebook page.)
I was already sent to prison back in October of 2024 for distributing A Genuine Response to the Fallout from the Article Titled. "Everyone Who Supports MSOP, Supports Sexual Violence - Including Me" and the Resistance Manifesto. Now they want to send me back for distributing the Common Sense Kids, the Mitchell Hamline report, the Stop Sexual Violence Teal Ribbon and the Hit Your Target political cartoon.² In addition, they want to suppress the Shadow Prison Dead List.
The Alleged Violations and my Defense to Each
Alleged Violation No. 1: The offender must schedule and attend all appointments with the medical/mental health provider and follow through with any recommendations of that provider.
Subject has been scheduled for weekly Therapeutic Community Meetings. Since July 1. 2025, Defendant has attended three out of eight available sessions. It is noted in a letter from [Clinical Director] Courtney Menten from 8/22/2025 that, "It is [an] expectation that clients attend all assigned treatment programming, to include both core therapy groups and Community Meetings.
My Defense to Alleged Violation No. 1: On July 11, 2024 a Treatment Memo was released to select individuals at the facility. The memo stated that Community Meeting would be moved to the visiting room and only those invited could attend. I was not invited. When I inquired as to why, Courtney Menten provided the following response:
...Community Meetings have been suspended and scheduled as invite-only due to the consistently unproductive meetings that had been held on the unit. Your behaviors have been supportive of countertherapeutic and criminal attitudes, as you have been one of the most outspoken individuals...
After being told that I am too outspoken, I did not feel very encouraged to participate in Community Meeting. Nevertheless, when Community Meeting was brought back to the unit, I began to attend again. I was a Tier 1 so I could not use the gym. But then I was promoted to Tier 2 status, which came with the expectation that I utilize gym-time. According to my Individual Treatment Plan (ITP) dated 8/19/25 I am expected to "Follow a weekly schedule of... activities... including... therapeutic recreation." (AKA gym-time) As a Tier 2, my gym-time on Wednesday is from 9:30am to 10:30am, the same time as Community Meeting. To follow my ITP, I had to make a choice between Community Meeting and gym-time. I chose gym-time. I could take gym-time on Thursdays as well, but that is during group therapy which is also a treatment expectation.
Alleged Violation No. 2: The offender must abide by all rules and regulations of the facility where the offender is released to or resides.
This agent received a letter dated 9/16/2025 from Special Investigator, Todd Kuusisto. It is noted that Subject had two minor rule violations on 8/25/2025, and 4/8/2025. Subject has had a major rule violation on 8/22/2025, two on 5/9/2025, and two on 4/18/2025.
My Defense to Alleged Violation No. 2:
1. Minor Rule Violation on 8/25/25: I gave another client a bag of chips. They thought there was drugs in the bag, but there wasn't.
2. Major Rule Violation on 8/22/25: I printed the Shadow Prison Dead List³ and other materials that criticize the program. The items were routed to the clinical department and deemed "counter-therapeutic" and were not returned to me. There is no policy requiring staff to route reading materials to the clinical department. In fact, the policy protects my right to distribute the Items outside of the facility:
Nothing in this policy should be construed as preventing or attempting to prevent any client or group of clients from petitioning or communicating with government bodies, courts, legislators, journalists, or participating in the grievance process.⁴
The items I printed were intended for the very institutions listed in the policy. Sometimes the clinical department approves of material routed to them. For instance, on 9/20/25 I printed a compilation of notes on the legislative intent of the program. The staff that reviewed the material found language from a lawmaker who stated that the treatment program was intended to act as an extension of our criminal sentences. The staff-person felt that this put the program in a negative light so he routed the materials to the clinical department. On 9/23/25 the items were returned to me.
3. Major Rule Violation on 5/9/25: Contraband was supposedly found in my room. But when I asked for photographs of these items, I never received them. I have no idea what was found.
4. Major Rule Violation on 5/9/25: Staff said they smelled marijuana in our room. Like every Friday, my cellmate had been at Native American sweat lodge where they sit in an enclosed structure and burn sage and smoke tobacco for 4 hours. When he returned from sweat lodge, we placed sage on a light bulb in the room which made the room smell like sage. Staff came by the room and said it smelled like marijuana. They searched the room, strip-searched both of us and gave us drug tests. No drugs were found and the drug tests were negative.
5. Major Rule Violation on 4/18/25: This rule violation is not included in their list of alleged violations. This rule violation was for refusing to take a drug test. They excluded it because they want to hide the fact that I took the test and it was negative. They were banking on me not obtaining the paperwork to prove this, but I did. I also took a drug test on 5/9/25. It was negative as well. This drug test was also not mentioned in the revocation papers.
6. Major Rule Violation on 4/18/25: I refused to comply with an unclothed body search because I felt that staff were being racist and targeting me and my cellmate. Like every Friday, my cellmate had been at Native American sweat lodge where they sit in an enclosed structure and burn sage and smoke tobacco for 4 hours. When he returned from sweat lodge, we placed sage on a light bulb in the room which made the room smell like sage. Staff came by the room and said it smelled like marijuana, even though they acknowledged that sage was "smoldering on a lamp." They searched the room, strip-searched both of us and gave us drug tests. No drugs were found and the drug tests were negative.
7. Major Rule Violation on 4/18/25: The window to my room was covered. I was using the bathroom. I uncovered the window as soon as staff came to the door.
8. Minor Rule Violation on 4/8/25: I was in the hallway longer than I should have been. It is my responsibility to make myself familiar to the new rules, I had just returned from prison so I was on restriction for 10 days. This means that I could not leave the unit for that 10 days. When I could finally leave the unit, I was unfamiliar with the new rule about hallway movement and did not know that we could not be in the hallway at that particular time.
Alleged Violation No. 3: The offender must comply with programming as established by the clinical director of the program. Refusal to attend or participate in programming as directed by the agent/designee constitutes a violation of this condition.
This agent received a letter dated 8/22/2025 from Courtney Menten informing that since July 1, 2025, Subject has attended six of eight scheduled core therapy groups. Courtney Menten notes, "When attending treatment programming, Mr. Wilson appears to still be sorting through ambivalence that keeps him from fully engaging. While he has made some improvements in increasing his attendance overall, Mr. Wilson continues to be challenged with moving beyond the pre-contemplative or contemplative stages of change."
My Defense to Alleged Violation No. 3: It took 3 months for them to schedule me for groups after I returned from prison on 3/27/25. My first group was scheduled for 7/10/25. I skipped that first group because I was sick and coughing uncontrollably. I spoke to my therapist and told him I was considering whether or not to go to group. He assured me that it would not be held against me if I had to skip it. Menten claims that I missed a group on 7/3/25. However, my treatment schedule did not begin until 7/7/25. Therefore, I did not miss 2 out of 8 group therapy sessions (75% attendance) like Menten claims. I missed 1 out of 7 group therapy sessions (86% attendance).
There are 5 stages of change in treatment. Menten claims that I am in the "pre-contemplative or contemplative stages of change" the 1st and 2nd stages. But according to my quarterly report dated 8/19/25 on page 9 under "Current Treatment Progress" and again on page 10 under "Treatment Phase Determination," I am in the Preparation Stage of treatment - the 3rd stage.
When I received my first Individual Treatment Plan (ITP) I went through it meticulously and developed a plan to complete all the required ITP goals and assignments. Within a month I completed the ITP which included 8 Perspective Taking Journals and 4 additional assignments that focused on specific ITP goals. Upon completion, I sent the assignments to my therapist for feedback. Once they were returned, I presented them in group for more feedback. When I completed all my assignments, I requested a new ITP, which I recently received from my therapist. In all, I completed, presented and received feedback for 12 assignments in a 6 week period. I did all of this even though our group sessions are only 2 hours a week and other patients also take time to present assignments.
In addition to the assignments, I submitted requests to meet with support peers, I met with my therapist several times to talk about my ITP goals and I met with a Security Counselor several times to talk about emotional regulation. In addition, on 9/24/25 1 completed CREST Training and am now a certified Conflict Resolution CREST Guide.
Menten says I am, "...sorting through ambivalence that keeps him from fully engaging..." The reality is, not only am I fully engaged in treatment, I am thriving at a high level despite my beliefs and concerns about the program.
Alleged Violation No. 4: The offender must refrain from engaging in any assaultive, abusive, violent, harassing, stalking, threatening behavior, or other behavior that poses a risk to public.
This agent received a call on 8/21/2025 from Todd Kuusisto. He notified this agent that a list of judges and attorneys names with personal addresses was mailed to the facility.
This agent received an email from the Anoka County Attorney's Office on 9/15/2025 and was notified that Subject sent an attorney at their office a packet. He sent this agent the packet that was received and that packet is included in the violation report.
My Defense to Alleged Violation No. 4: My right to free press and free speech is protected by the 1st Amendment AND by facility policy which states:
Nothing in this policy should be construed as preventing or attempting to prevent any client or group of clients from petitioning or communicating with government bodies, courts, legislators, journalists, or participating in the grievance process.⁵
I received the Anoka County Attorney's address in the mail which is reviewed by facility staff, I then placed a packet of information in the outgoing mailbox with the Anoka County Attorney's address on it. The next day, facility staff reviewed the packet and sent it to the Anoka County Attorney via U.S. Postal Service. If they thought it was a problem, they could have intervened at any stage in that process. It is also important to point out that I could have easily written a Client Request to the Client Resource Coordinator to get the address. In fact, I just recently did this and received the address for the Minnesota Secretary of State, a government body just like Anoka County Attorney's office is a government body. In addition, I have contact information for all of the state legislators as well as contact information for many of the employees of Direct Care and Treatment. All of this was either approved by facility staff or provided directly by facility staff.
The reason I sent the information to the individual at the Anoka County Attorney's office in the first place is because I was told that he might be interested in learning more about the program. I guess it was a bad lead because the individual who received the packet of information contacted my parole officer to complain about it.
The following items were sent to the Anoka County Attorney: the Common Sense Kids, the Mitchell Hamline report, the Stop Sexual Violence Teal Ribbon, the Hit Your Target political cartoon and the cover letter on the following page.
¹ Rule violation on 8/22/25. (see alleged violated No. 2)
²These items were all sent to the Anoka County Attorney (see alleged violated No. 4)
³The Shadow Prison Dead List is a list of all the patients who have died at the facility over the last 31 years.
⁴Maintaining a Therapeutic Treatment Environment. Policy No. 215-5001
⁵Maintaining a Therapeutic Treatment Environment. Policy No. 215-5001
Alleged Violation No. 1: The offender must schedule and attend all appointments with the medical/mental health provider and follow through with any recommendations of that provider.
Subject has been scheduled for weekly Therapeutic Community Meetings. Since July 1. 2025, Defendant has attended three out of eight available sessions. It is noted in a letter from [Clinical Director] Courtney Menten from 8/22/2025 that, "It is [an] expectation that clients attend all assigned treatment programming, to include both core therapy groups and Community Meetings.
My Defense to Alleged Violation No. 1: On July 11, 2024 a Treatment Memo was released to select individuals at the facility. The memo stated that Community Meeting would be moved to the visiting room and only those invited could attend. I was not invited. When I inquired as to why, Courtney Menten provided the following response:
...Community Meetings have been suspended and scheduled as invite-only due to the consistently unproductive meetings that had been held on the unit. Your behaviors have been supportive of countertherapeutic and criminal attitudes, as you have been one of the most outspoken individuals...
After being told that I am too outspoken, I did not feel very encouraged to participate in Community Meeting. Nevertheless, when Community Meeting was brought back to the unit, I began to attend again. I was a Tier 1 so I could not use the gym. But then I was promoted to Tier 2 status, which came with the expectation that I utilize gym-time. According to my Individual Treatment Plan (ITP) dated 8/19/25 I am expected to "Follow a weekly schedule of... activities... including... therapeutic recreation." (AKA gym-time) As a Tier 2, my gym-time on Wednesday is from 9:30am to 10:30am, the same time as Community Meeting. To follow my ITP, I had to make a choice between Community Meeting and gym-time. I chose gym-time. I could take gym-time on Thursdays as well, but that is during group therapy which is also a treatment expectation.
Alleged Violation No. 2: The offender must abide by all rules and regulations of the facility where the offender is released to or resides.
This agent received a letter dated 9/16/2025 from Special Investigator, Todd Kuusisto. It is noted that Subject had two minor rule violations on 8/25/2025, and 4/8/2025. Subject has had a major rule violation on 8/22/2025, two on 5/9/2025, and two on 4/18/2025.
My Defense to Alleged Violation No. 2:
1. Minor Rule Violation on 8/25/25: I gave another client a bag of chips. They thought there was drugs in the bag, but there wasn't.
2. Major Rule Violation on 8/22/25: I printed the Shadow Prison Dead List³ and other materials that criticize the program. The items were routed to the clinical department and deemed "counter-therapeutic" and were not returned to me. There is no policy requiring staff to route reading materials to the clinical department. In fact, the policy protects my right to distribute the Items outside of the facility:
Nothing in this policy should be construed as preventing or attempting to prevent any client or group of clients from petitioning or communicating with government bodies, courts, legislators, journalists, or participating in the grievance process.⁴
The items I printed were intended for the very institutions listed in the policy. Sometimes the clinical department approves of material routed to them. For instance, on 9/20/25 I printed a compilation of notes on the legislative intent of the program. The staff that reviewed the material found language from a lawmaker who stated that the treatment program was intended to act as an extension of our criminal sentences. The staff-person felt that this put the program in a negative light so he routed the materials to the clinical department. On 9/23/25 the items were returned to me.
3. Major Rule Violation on 5/9/25: Contraband was supposedly found in my room. But when I asked for photographs of these items, I never received them. I have no idea what was found.
4. Major Rule Violation on 5/9/25: Staff said they smelled marijuana in our room. Like every Friday, my cellmate had been at Native American sweat lodge where they sit in an enclosed structure and burn sage and smoke tobacco for 4 hours. When he returned from sweat lodge, we placed sage on a light bulb in the room which made the room smell like sage. Staff came by the room and said it smelled like marijuana. They searched the room, strip-searched both of us and gave us drug tests. No drugs were found and the drug tests were negative.
5. Major Rule Violation on 4/18/25: This rule violation is not included in their list of alleged violations. This rule violation was for refusing to take a drug test. They excluded it because they want to hide the fact that I took the test and it was negative. They were banking on me not obtaining the paperwork to prove this, but I did. I also took a drug test on 5/9/25. It was negative as well. This drug test was also not mentioned in the revocation papers.
6. Major Rule Violation on 4/18/25: I refused to comply with an unclothed body search because I felt that staff were being racist and targeting me and my cellmate. Like every Friday, my cellmate had been at Native American sweat lodge where they sit in an enclosed structure and burn sage and smoke tobacco for 4 hours. When he returned from sweat lodge, we placed sage on a light bulb in the room which made the room smell like sage. Staff came by the room and said it smelled like marijuana, even though they acknowledged that sage was "smoldering on a lamp." They searched the room, strip-searched both of us and gave us drug tests. No drugs were found and the drug tests were negative.
7. Major Rule Violation on 4/18/25: The window to my room was covered. I was using the bathroom. I uncovered the window as soon as staff came to the door.
8. Minor Rule Violation on 4/8/25: I was in the hallway longer than I should have been. It is my responsibility to make myself familiar to the new rules, I had just returned from prison so I was on restriction for 10 days. This means that I could not leave the unit for that 10 days. When I could finally leave the unit, I was unfamiliar with the new rule about hallway movement and did not know that we could not be in the hallway at that particular time.
Alleged Violation No. 3: The offender must comply with programming as established by the clinical director of the program. Refusal to attend or participate in programming as directed by the agent/designee constitutes a violation of this condition.
This agent received a letter dated 8/22/2025 from Courtney Menten informing that since July 1, 2025, Subject has attended six of eight scheduled core therapy groups. Courtney Menten notes, "When attending treatment programming, Mr. Wilson appears to still be sorting through ambivalence that keeps him from fully engaging. While he has made some improvements in increasing his attendance overall, Mr. Wilson continues to be challenged with moving beyond the pre-contemplative or contemplative stages of change."
My Defense to Alleged Violation No. 3: It took 3 months for them to schedule me for groups after I returned from prison on 3/27/25. My first group was scheduled for 7/10/25. I skipped that first group because I was sick and coughing uncontrollably. I spoke to my therapist and told him I was considering whether or not to go to group. He assured me that it would not be held against me if I had to skip it. Menten claims that I missed a group on 7/3/25. However, my treatment schedule did not begin until 7/7/25. Therefore, I did not miss 2 out of 8 group therapy sessions (75% attendance) like Menten claims. I missed 1 out of 7 group therapy sessions (86% attendance).
There are 5 stages of change in treatment. Menten claims that I am in the "pre-contemplative or contemplative stages of change" the 1st and 2nd stages. But according to my quarterly report dated 8/19/25 on page 9 under "Current Treatment Progress" and again on page 10 under "Treatment Phase Determination," I am in the Preparation Stage of treatment - the 3rd stage.
When I received my first Individual Treatment Plan (ITP) I went through it meticulously and developed a plan to complete all the required ITP goals and assignments. Within a month I completed the ITP which included 8 Perspective Taking Journals and 4 additional assignments that focused on specific ITP goals. Upon completion, I sent the assignments to my therapist for feedback. Once they were returned, I presented them in group for more feedback. When I completed all my assignments, I requested a new ITP, which I recently received from my therapist. In all, I completed, presented and received feedback for 12 assignments in a 6 week period. I did all of this even though our group sessions are only 2 hours a week and other patients also take time to present assignments.
In addition to the assignments, I submitted requests to meet with support peers, I met with my therapist several times to talk about my ITP goals and I met with a Security Counselor several times to talk about emotional regulation. In addition, on 9/24/25 1 completed CREST Training and am now a certified Conflict Resolution CREST Guide.
Menten says I am, "...sorting through ambivalence that keeps him from fully engaging..." The reality is, not only am I fully engaged in treatment, I am thriving at a high level despite my beliefs and concerns about the program.
Alleged Violation No. 4: The offender must refrain from engaging in any assaultive, abusive, violent, harassing, stalking, threatening behavior, or other behavior that poses a risk to public.
This agent received a call on 8/21/2025 from Todd Kuusisto. He notified this agent that a list of judges and attorneys names with personal addresses was mailed to the facility.
This agent received an email from the Anoka County Attorney's Office on 9/15/2025 and was notified that Subject sent an attorney at their office a packet. He sent this agent the packet that was received and that packet is included in the violation report.
My Defense to Alleged Violation No. 4: My right to free press and free speech is protected by the 1st Amendment AND by facility policy which states:
Nothing in this policy should be construed as preventing or attempting to prevent any client or group of clients from petitioning or communicating with government bodies, courts, legislators, journalists, or participating in the grievance process.⁵
I received the Anoka County Attorney's address in the mail which is reviewed by facility staff, I then placed a packet of information in the outgoing mailbox with the Anoka County Attorney's address on it. The next day, facility staff reviewed the packet and sent it to the Anoka County Attorney via U.S. Postal Service. If they thought it was a problem, they could have intervened at any stage in that process. It is also important to point out that I could have easily written a Client Request to the Client Resource Coordinator to get the address. In fact, I just recently did this and received the address for the Minnesota Secretary of State, a government body just like Anoka County Attorney's office is a government body. In addition, I have contact information for all of the state legislators as well as contact information for many of the employees of Direct Care and Treatment. All of this was either approved by facility staff or provided directly by facility staff.
The reason I sent the information to the individual at the Anoka County Attorney's office in the first place is because I was told that he might be interested in learning more about the program. I guess it was a bad lead because the individual who received the packet of information contacted my parole officer to complain about it.
The following items were sent to the Anoka County Attorney: the Common Sense Kids, the Mitchell Hamline report, the Stop Sexual Violence Teal Ribbon, the Hit Your Target political cartoon and the cover letter on the following page.
¹ Rule violation on 8/22/25. (see alleged violated No. 2)
²These items were all sent to the Anoka County Attorney (see alleged violated No. 4)
³The Shadow Prison Dead List is a list of all the patients who have died at the facility over the last 31 years.
⁴Maintaining a Therapeutic Treatment Environment. Policy No. 215-5001
⁵Maintaining a Therapeutic Treatment Environment. Policy No. 215-5001
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Alongside likeminded groups and free world activists, OCEAN is abolishing preventive detention from the front lines of the most egregious preventive detention facility in America. To replace the current system, OCEAN is allocating funds and resources toward effective, evidence based, solutions to address mental illness and crime in Minnesota. As we accomplish these goals locally, OCEAN will gradually focus on accomplishing them nationally.
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