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WA Special Commitment Center Failing

Loaded on March 15, 1995 published in Prison Legal News March, 1995, page 11
Filed under: Mental Health, Sex Offender Treatment, Civil Commitment. Location: Washington.
In 1989 Washington State passed a controversial "civil commitment" law to allow for the indefinite incarceration of "dangerous sexual predators." Opponents of this law point out that although those who are determined to be sexual predators are confined to a "treatment center" until they can show that they are no ...

 

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