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Seventh Circuit Slams Illinois Civil Commitment Program but Reverses Injunction
Loaded on Jan. 1, 2024
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2024, page 61
“Very weighty interests are at stake when a state institutes a program of civil commitment for sex offenders who, though never tried for or convicted of a crime, are found too dangerous for release.” So began a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on July ...
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