UPDATED: New Zealand considers striking down civil commitment.
A case considering whether New Zealand’s “Public Protection Order” detention (which is their equivalent to Civil Commitment) is double-punishment for a past crime is being considered by the Court of Appeal.
Under that law, hundreds of people, mostly people convicted of a sex offense, were held for years after their sentence ended because they were believed to be at high risk of committing another offense.
A lawyer arguing for one of the men said, “people still believed to be dangerous could be dealt with without indulging in penal populism, locking people up in a “charade of a prison within a prison””
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Nothing has been struck down, according to the article. Where do you see that?
SORRY!!! and GOOD CATCH JACOB!!!
The story has been updated.
It’s good to see that there is some common sense somewhere in the world…it’s not in Florida.