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from: Ross Sauer
date: 2010-05-17 18:17:44
subject: Supreme Court decision on sex offenders

I have one qualm with this decision.
Who decides who is still sexually dangerous?
And how do they decide?

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court ruled Monday that federal officials can
indefinitely hold inmates considered "sexually dangerous" after their
prison terms are complete.

The high court reversed a lower court decision that said Congress
overstepped its authority in allowing indefinite detentions of considered
"sexually dangerous."

"The statute is a 'necessary and proper' means of exercising the federal
authority that permits Congress to create federal criminal laws, to punish
their violation, to imprison violators, to provide appropriately for those
imprisoned and to maintain the security of those who are not imprisoned by
who may be affected by the federal imprisonment of others," said Justice
Stephen Breyer, writing the majority opinion.

President George W. Bush in 2006 signed the Adam Walsh Child Protection and
Safety Act, which authorized the civil commitment of sexually dangerous
federal inmates.

http://tinyurl.com/328bh3s

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