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Re-incarceration Not Grounds to Dismiss Wisconsin Civil Commitment Petition
Loaded on July 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2013, page 42
On June 29, 2012, the Wisconsin Supreme Court held that Wisconsin Statutes chapter 980 (2005-06), the state's sex offender civil commitment law, does not require that a pending commitment petition be dismissed when the person subject to civil commitment is re-incarcerated due to revocation of their parole or extended supervision. ...
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