COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - When he was a prisoner serving time for child rape, Joseph Edward Duncan III protested when Washington State Penitentiary officials prevented him from receiving a publication depicting child pornography, the Spokesman-Review reported Tuesday.

Using Washington Department of Corrections files released under a public disclosure request, the Spokane, Wash., newspaper also reported that his therapist and a parole officer debated over the appropriateness of Duncan's sexual relations after his release.

Duncan, 42, of Fargo, N.D., has been charged with killing three people at a north Idaho home. Authorities also allege he kidnapped 8-year-old Shasta Groene and her brother, 9-year-old Dylan, and sexually assaulted them.

Shasta was discovered with Duncan at a Coeur d'Alene restaurant July 2. Dylan's body was found a few days later at a remote site in western Montana.

In a brief hearing Tuesday, Duncan was told Minnesota had issued a fugitive warrant for him for allegedly skipping bail there last May. The warrant allows Kootenai County officials to hold Duncan until after the Idaho charges are resolved.

More than 1,000 pages of Duncan's prison system records were released Monday by the Corrections Department.

In an April 28, 1991, memo responding to Duncan's complaint, Superintendent Jim Blodgett supported the prison mail room's decision to deny access to the TR Publications mailing, which he said "encouraged the activities of bondage and homosexual activities with children."

At the time, Duncan was serving time for raping a 14-year-old boy at gunpoint.

The files released Monday do not include Duncan's original complaint or a copy of the publication, the newspaper reported.

The newspaper also published excerpts from a letter Duncan's parole officer wrote to his therapist after Duncan was originally released.

"Would you please explain how permitting Mr. Duncan to sustain an adulterous relationship with a married woman is beneficial to his sexual deviancy issues?" community corrections officer Sandra Silver wrote to Duncan's therapist.

The file includes a heavily redacted 2000 psychological report by Dr. Carla van Dam, in which she said there wasn't enough evidence to civilly commit Duncan to a secure treatment facility, the newspaper reported.

But she also seemed uneasy about his release.

"Based on the file information, however, concerns about his ability to refrain from sexually violent behavior remain," she wrote. He was a skilled liar and an untreated sex offender, she noted, "with a long-standing history of sexually deviant behavior and sexual excitement he associates with aggression and violence."

Duncan is accused of killing Brenda Groene, 40; her son, Slade Groene, 13; and her boyfriend, Mark McKenzie, 37, at their Kootenai County home in May. He had been charged with kidnapping the two younger children, but Idaho authorities dropped those counts in anticipation of the federal government charging him with kidnapping the two children and with killing Dylan.

While it is the Associated Press' policy not to identify alleged victims of sexual assault in most cases, the search for Shasta and her brother was so heavily publicized that their names are widely known.

Duncan was first released from prison in late December 1994, 14 years after he was sentenced for raping a Tacoma teen.

About 18 months later, Silver worried about Duncan's behavior. In a routine polygraph test, he'd mentioned sex with at least 10 different men since his last polygraph. The tests were required every 90 days.

"I see two very distinct problems if you continue to permit Mr. Duncan to engage in promiscuous bathhouse sex," Silver wrote to Seattle therapist Glenn Pressel. "… He is conditioning himself to expect casual sex and immediate gratification … (and) he has no incentive to work on the necessary social and dating skills which lead to an appropriate sexual relationship."

Pressel replied that all parties were consenting adults, and that bathhouse sex "is considered within the norm of gay sexual behavior within the gay community here in Seattle."

But Silver contended those activities weren't allowed for convicted sex offenders.

"Sexual expression is only permitted within a mature and committed relationship with an age-appropriate partner," she wrote. Duncan's relationship with the married woman also didn't meet that standard, she said.

After failing a drug test and violating other parole rules, Duncan fled the state in the spring of 1997. He was arrested several months later in Kansas City, Mo., and sent back to prison to serve the remainder of his 20-year sentence.

The newspaper reported that even in prison, Duncan cultivated outside relationships with people who could help him.

One letter asking someone to help change prison documents from rape to assault was screened by prison officials, who seized it and charged Duncan with trying to forge official documentation.