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New York's Sex Offender Treatment Program Enjoined; Stay Issued Pending Appeal
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2006, page 24
by Bob Williams
Filed under:
Sex Offenders (Discrimination),
Self Incrimination,
Injunctions (PLRA),
Mental Health,
Sex Offender Treatment.
Location:
New York.
The United States District Court for the Northern District of New York ruled that New York's program for treating convicted state sex offenders violates the Fifth Amendment's guarantee against compulsory self-incrimination and issued a preliminary injunction. The Second Circuit has issued a stay pending appeal.
In 2002, …
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