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Article • July 15, 2001 • from PLN July, 2001
Lack of "Volitional Control" Required for Civil Commitment of Kansas Sex Offenders; S.Ct. Grants Review by Lack of "Volitional Control" Required for Civil Commitment of Kansas Sex Offenders; S.Ct. Grants Review The Kansas Supreme Court has held that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires proof of a …
ADA Settlement at Washington Special Commitment Center by Hank Balson By Hank Balson In December 2000, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) and the Washington Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) settled a lawsuit brought by seven disabled residents of the Washington Special Commitment Center (SCC), the state's civil …
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
Federal Religious Freedom Law Passed by Dan Pens On July 27, 2000, Congress unanimously enacted Senate Bill 2869, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA), which was signed into law by president Clinton, as a public law 106-274. The bill passed congress in two weeks and …
Article • March 15, 2001 • from PLN March, 2001
PLRA Doesn't Apply to Civil Commitments by The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit held that the Prison Litigation Reform Act does not apply to people civilly committed as "sexually violent predators." Sammy Page is civilly committed under California's Sexually Violent Predators Act. Page filed suit in Federal court …
Brief • January 23, 2001
Davenport v. Seling, WA, Settlement, Civil Commitment Confinement Conditions, 2001 Page,Z of q #1089211 ~oC)~l.t?- ~,;..o m~SS'ZILLY .' 1.1'7 1 2 , 3 ,4 ~~I~DGED:tr-::~_= 5 JAN 1'7 2001 e 7 ~ FILED J:1L,MERED . LODGED _RECQV£D ' JAN 222001 ' . A'f &11ATTt.l .cLERK u.s. DISTRICT COURT WES1EllN DISTRICT …
Article • December 15, 2000 • from PLN December, 2000
WA Civil Commitment Ruling Published by In the September, 2000 issue of PLN we reported on a ruling by Judge William Dwyer of Seattle who held the Washington Special Commitment Center in contempt for failing to provide treatment and transitional release housing for civilly committed "sexually violent predators." The court's …
Article • November 15, 2000 • from PLN November, 2000
Florida 'Sexual Predator' Fails in Daring Bid for Freedom by A "violent sexual predator" who broke out of Florida's civil commitment detention center in a brazen midday helicopter escape was captured, along with his helicopter-flying accomplice, 4 ½ miles away after a 25-hour manhunt. Shortly after 1:00 P.Mon June 5, …
Fines Against WA Civil Commitment Center Stayed by Dan Pens In the May 2000 issue of PLN we reported the progress of a federal court injunction issued in 1994 against Washington's Special Commitment Center (SCC), the nation's first civil commitment facility specifically for the long-term detention and "treatment" of "sexual …
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
U.S. Supreme Court to Revisit Civil Commitment by On March 20, 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court granted Certiorari to the State of Washington appealing a ninth. Circuit order for the district court to hold an evidentiary hearing to determine if the state's civil commitment statute "as applied" to petitioner renders …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Washington Civil Commitment Held in Contempt by Tamara Menteer 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 …
PLRA Doesn't Apply to Civil Commitments by A federal district court in Massachusetts held that the PLRA does not apply to sexually dangerous people who are civilly committed, even when the facility they are housed in is in fact a prison administered by the state prison system. In 1975 a …
Article • February 15, 2000 • from PLN February, 2000
Whitestone Foundation by Whitestone Foundation Focusing on New Post-Sentence Civil Commitment Laws Whitestone Foundation exposes programs designed to warehouse sex offenders. Since organizing in 1998, Whitestone has gained national attention. Our missions: 1) provide critical analysis of civil commitment programs designed to re-incarcerate criminals in indefinite confinement (touted as mental …
Article • January 15, 2000 • from PLN January, 2000
Florida DOC Curtails Use of Stun Belts by After several Florida circuit judges ordered the state prison system to stop using stun belts on prisoners, DOC Chief of Operations James Upchurch ordered the routine use of the of the belts temporarily discontinued, the Palm Beach Post reported in its 23 …
Brief • December 2, 1999
Filed under: Civil Commitment
Turay v. Seling, WA, Stipulations, Civil Commitment, 1999 Turay v. Seling ™ H • • • • HH • • • • PC-WA-004-003 Honorable William L. Dwyer 1 2 ENTERED 3 4 °tC 1 1999 J K 5 WASHINGTON DEPUTY 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
PLRA Filing fees Don't Apply to Civil Commitments by PLRA Filing Fees Don't Apply to Civil Commitments: A federal district court in Wisconsin held that the filing fee provisions of the PLRA do not apply to so called "sex predators" civilly committed in detention facilities for "treatment." 28 U.S.C. § …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
A Zoo Within a Prison by On April 18, 1998, a fleet of buses, trucks, and police cruisers rolled up to the SCC's subterranean asylum. It was moving day. Washington sex offenders have continually been snared by the civil commitment process since 1990. Because only one has been deemed "cured" …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
WI Predator-Law Poster Boy Gets Released by On Halloween, 1973, nine-year-old Lisa French disappeared while trick-or-treating in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Gerald Turner, a neighbor and friend of the French family, was ultimately convicted of abducting, raping and murdering the girl. Dubbed the Halloween Killer, Turner languished in the maxi- …
Through the Civil Commitment Looking Glass by Tamara Menteer 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 …
Article • December 15, 1997 • from PLN December, 1997
Supreme Court Rulings Trickle Down: Washington Civil Commitment by Washington Civil Commitment La.: In the November, 1995, issue of PLN we reported Young v. Weston, 898 F. Supp. 744 (WD WA 1995) where a district court in Washington struck down as unconstitutional that state's civil commitment law. The case was …
Article • August 15, 1997 • from PLN August, 1997
Supreme Court Upholds Kansas Civil Commitment Law by Dan Pens In a chilling 5-4 ruling, the U.S. supreme court reversed a Kansas supreme court which invalidated the Kansas Sexually Violent Predator Act after holding that the Act ("civil commitment" of "sexually violent predators" who suffer from a "mental abnormality" or …
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