There is a law in Massachusetts that is designed to keep former sex offenders locked up in a prison after the expiration of their sentence. This law was designed to be a civil law in order to avoid the prohibitions of double jeopardy, ex post facto, and breach of contracts that exist in our Constitution.
Typically, the Courts state that the confinement is for treatment of a mental abnormality or personality disorder, and is remedial rather than retributive. The treatment program in Massachusetts is manned by individuals who are NOT licensed Psychologists or Social Workers, and the program's structure was designed by individuals that practice on an academic, rather than clinical level.
The confinement is under the same rules and policies as those during a prison term, and in some ways, are even more restrictive. Massachusetts Legislators have been perpetrating a fraud on the citizens of Massachusetts with this MGL. c. 123A, and those subjected to the law are unable to have it reformed, or ordered reformed by the federal Courts.
I have had a Civil Rights complaint before the US District Court in Boston since 2002, and I still haven't received a single hearing. I don't understand it at all. What has happened in our Country. People seem to want to hold others accountable, but refuse to be responsible and accountable themselves. That smells like hypocrisy to me.
No individual should be held beyond his time unless it is clear--by current behavioral evidence--that the person remains dangerous, and not by hired gun psychologists either. States have to pay for that shit, and it's costing the taxpayers MILLIONS of dollars each year. Not to mention the fact that under those conditions, prisoners become potentially more dangerous out of spite, hopelessness, or anger.
Civil commitment should be a last resort for someone who is clearly mentally disordered and dangerous!
TMaximus95.
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Monday, January 28, 2008
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