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Texas Sex Offender Oversight Agency Faces Investigations, Calls for Reform
Loaded on March 4, 2015
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2015, page 18
Filed under:
Judicial Misconduct,
Sex Offenders (Discrimination),
Civil Commitment.
Location:
Texas.
Texas Sex Offender Oversight Agency Faces Investigations, Calls for Reform
by Matt Clarke
An increasing number of attorneys, legislators and prisoner advocacy groups are calling for reforms to Texas laws governing the civil commitment of sex offenders, with many warning that the state’s civil commitment program may …
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