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California’s “High-Risk” Sex Offender Parolees Ostracized; Parole Official Fired by John Dannenberg California's "High-Risk" Sex Offender Parolees Ostracized; Parole Official Fired by John E. Dannenberg California's 2,000 "high-risk" sex offenders (HRSOs) currently on parole are increasingly being ostracized following relentless publicity as to their whereabouts, forcing parole officials to continuously …
How to Exit Californias Sexual Predator Prison: Refuse Treatment by John Dannenberg How to Exit California's Sexual Predator Prison: Refuse Treatment by John E. Dannenberg California, with 538 sexually violent predators (SVP) civilly committed at its Department of Mental Healths Atascadero State Hospital (ASH), has an efficacious five-step psychological treatment …
Article • December 15, 2006 • from PLN December, 2006
New California SVP Facility Struggles to Attract Staff by The new $338 million Coalinga State Hospital (CSH), which opened in October 2005, houses only the best-behaved 170 Of Atascadero State Hospitals (ASH) 550 sexually violent predators (SVP), as of March 2006. Although the physical plant is in place, the staff …
Floridas Civil Commitment Center Under Funded and Out-of-Control by David Reutter Floridas Civil Commitment Center Under Funded and Out-of-Control by David M. Reutter When first created in 1999, Florida's Civil Commitment Center (FCCC) was hyped as a place to house sexually violent predators for protection of the public while providing …
Unique Texas Sexual Predator Civil Commitment Has Successes/Failures by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke Texas has a unique form of civil commitment for sexual predators which allows outpatient treatment and requires most of the civilly committed to live at a halfway house. A committed man's recent escape from a …
Article • September 15, 2006 • from PLN September, 2006
Dismissal of Failure to Protect Claim Reversed; No Showing Necessary to Survive Rule 12(b)(6) Dismissal by Dismissal of Failure to Protect Claim Reversed; No Showing Necessary to Survive Rule 12(b)(6) Dismissal The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court's dismissal of a civil committees failure to protect and …
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
New York Governor Illegally Halts the Release of 12 Sex Offenders by by Gary Hunter New York Governor George Pataki illegally ordered twelve sex offenders, scheduled for release from prison, to be committed to New York's Manhattan Psychiatric Center (MPC), between September 23 and October 21, 2005. On November 2, …
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
Civil Commitment of Massachusetts Sex Offenders Expanding by by Michael Rigby Massachusetts prosecutors are using recent changes in state law to expand the number of sex offenders imprisoned through civil commitment, and it's costing taxpayers millions. In 2004 and 2005, the Massachusetts legislature and Governor Mitt Romney greatly expanded the …
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
Massachusetts DOC Denies Two, Approves One, Same-Sex Marriages by Massachusetts DOC Denies Two, Approves One, Same-Sex Marriages by Matthew T. Clarke The Massachusetts Department of Corrections (DOC) has denied the request of two civilly-committed sex offenders to marry. It also denied a similar request by two other male prisoners, but …
Sexual Predator Civil Commitment Detainee May Not Be Housed In Punitive Segregation by by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that a California sexual predator civil commitment detainee, while awaiting commitment proceedings, is entitled to conditions of confinement that are not punitive. Oscar Jones was …
Article • October 15, 2005
Prior Sex Offense Plea Qualifies For California Sexually Violent Predator Civil Commitment by The San Joaquin County California District Attorney requested review by the State Supreme Court of an appellate decision that State prisoner Norman Yartz's first sex offense conviction in 1978 could not be used to support his civil …
Court Orders Washington DOC to Stop Dragging Its Feet on Sex Offender Release Plans by Hank Balson Court Orders Washington DOC to Stop Dragging Its Feet on Sex Offender Release Plans by Hank Balson The Washington Court of Appeals ruled in May that the state's Department of Corrections (DOC) has …
Article • February 15, 2005 • from PLN February, 2005
California Prosecutor Fights Deportation Of Paroled Sex Offenders by California Prosecutor Fights Deportation Of Paroled Sex Offenders Today, nobody wants to keep paroled sex offenders around. Except the Los Angeles County district attorney, that is. In an odd "man bites dog" scenario, the district attorney is trying to retain four …
Article • February 15, 2005 • from PLN February, 2005
California Sexual Predator Unconditionally Released by California's first "graduate" of the state's sexually violent predator (SVP) program, who was released in August, 2003 to highly supervised conditions while living in a trailer on the grounds of Soledad State Prison, was granted unconditional release by a state judge in San Jose, …
Article • February 15, 2005 • from PLN February, 2005
Iowa Must Give Kosher Meals to Civilly Committed Sex Offender by John E Dannenberg Iowa Must Give Kosher Meals To Civilly Committed Sex Offender by John E. Dannenberg The United States District Court (S.D. Iowa) ordered that Kosher meals be provided without co-payment to an Orthodox Jewish prisoner who is …
Article • December 15, 2004 • from PLN December, 2004
"Therapeutic Seclusion" of Civilly Committed Sex Offenders Contrary to Professional Judgment by David Reutter "Therapeutic Seclusion" of Civilly Committed Sex Offenders Contrary to Professional Judgment by David M. Reutter The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that civilly committed sex offenders are entitled, as a matter of due process, …
Class Action Challenges Treatment of Florida's "Sexual Predator" Civil Detainees by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A federal class action has been filed in the Federal District Court in Ft. Myers by eight residents of the Florida Civil Commitment Center (FCCC), seeking to enforce their rights to mental health …
Article • August 15, 2004 • from PLN August, 2004
New Jersey Civil Commitment Hearings Secret, Biased by Michael Rigby The growing trend of keeping sex of-fenders confined even after they have completed their prison sentences has taken a bizarre turn for the worse in New Jersey, where civil commitment proceedings are held in secretthe records sealedand sex offenders are …
No Qualified Immunity in Civil Commitment Phone Monitoring by The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed summary judgment granted by the U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington, to officials at the Special Commitment Center (SCC) for sex offenders at McNeil Island, Washington. This case is part of ongoing …
Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004
BOP Medical Detainees Not Subject to PLRA by In a brief per curiam opinion, the court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that a Federal Medical Center detainee in Missouri was exempt from the administrative exhaustion provisions of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a). The …
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