The Dobbs Wire: Loss in 8th Circuit – Civil Commitment

Today a federal appeals court handed down a decision that allows Minnesota’s ‘civil commitment’ program for sexual wrongdoers to keep rolling.  In 2015, after a six-week-long trial of a class action lawsuit brought by 700 individuals who continue to be held indefinitely–a federal judge was appalled at the goings-on and declared the Minnesota program unconstitutional.  That’s history now as today’s

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