Before spending another dollar, or referring to the Bill of Rights and the federal and state constitutions as toilet paper, the public should demand evidence that longer incarceration is for the original sex offense and justified by a criminal judge, not some obscure civil administrative official or some made-up law that sent them there illegally.

If a completed sentence can continue to generate restrictions, surveillance, and additional imprisonment decades later, the public should ask if they wish these rules upon themselves. That question deserves as much attention as the fiscal cost of the new law.