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Sex Crimes and Criminal Justice: Formerly Incarcerated Sex Offenders Say Civil Commitment Programs Deny Proper Rehabilitation
Loaded on Jan. 8, 2019
by Barbara Koeppel
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2019, page 1
Filed under:
Sex Offender Registration,
Sex Offenders (Discrimination),
Rehabilitation/Recidivism.
Location:
United States of America.
by Barbara Koeppel, The Washington Spectator
Responding to several highly-publicized sex crimes and public fears, legislatures across the country have adopted statutes that allow the continued imprisonment of sex offenders after they have completed their sentences. Veteran investigative reporter Barbara Koeppel has spent the past 12 months reporting on this ...
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