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Sex Offenders Have No Right to Treatment

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Mental Health, Sex Offender Treatment, Civil Commitment. Location: New Mexico.

The court of appeals for the Tenth circuit held that New Mexico sex offenders were not entitled to treatment for sexual disorders under the Eighth amendment. With the proliferation of civil commitment laws that purport to imprison sex offenders after completion of their criminal sentences for the purpose of getting …

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