Articles by Tamara Menteer

Washington Civil Commitment Held in Contempt

Loaded on May 15, 2000 by Tamara Menteer published in Prison Legal News May, 2000, page 8

Filed under: Mental Health, Civil Commitment. Location: Washington.

by Ron Petersen and Tamara Menteer

On November 15, 1999, after 6 years overseeing an injunction, a federal judge issued a ruling finding the Washington state civil commitment facility known as The Special Commitment Center (SCC) , the nation's first civil commitment program designed to re-incarcerate sex offenders beyond the ...

Through the Civil Commitment Looking Glass

Loaded on Aug. 15, 1998 by Tamara Menteer published in Prison Legal News August, 1998, page 1

Filed under: Sex Offenders (Discrimination), Mental Health, Sex Offender Treatment, Civil Commitment. Location: Washington.

If the object or purpose of the Kansas [civil commitment] law had been to provide treatment but treatment were adopted as a sham or mere pretext, there would have been an indication of the forbidden purpose to punish . -- Justice Kennedy's concurring majority opinion in Hendricks v. Kansas , ...