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Prison Legal News: January, 2026

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Volume 37, Number 1

In this issue:

  1. Shadow Prisons: How Civil Commitment Leads to Longer Confinement (p 0)

Shadow Prisons: How Civil Commitment Leads to Longer Confinement

by Chuck Sharman

At the center of mass incarceration in the United States is a deeply troubling fact: More than two of every five people locked up have been diagnosed with a mental disorder. With nearly two million people caged in U.S. prisons and jails, that means the …