Taiwan: Civil Commitment “Mostly Constitutional”
Taiwan’s Constitutional Court on Thursday declared that current laws allowing convicted sex offenders to be held in a designated facility for therapy after completing their sentence are “mostly constitutional.”
However, the court ruled it “unconstitutional” that the laws do not give convicted sex offenders a chance to express their opinion before making them undergo inpatient treatment after completing their prison term.
While the laws specify that offenders held at such facilities must be evaluated annually to determine their progress, they do not set a maximum period for such therapy, meaning that in principle individuals can be held indefinitely.
The ministry stressed that the system is being used judiciously, saying that of the 9,049 individuals convicted under the Sexual Assault Crime Prevention Act between 2010 and September 2020, only 158, or 1.74 percent, have been ordered to receive compulsory treatment, and most have since been released.
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Mostly constitutional (meaning they just force it and get away with it)
“Mostly constitutional” is like “mostly pregnant”.
Either you have a bun in the oven or you don’t. All the NAZI Concentration Camps were “civil commitment” under their laws at the time, but in time, those laws were declared a violation in human rights.
From wikipedia
Under the Nazi’s new paragraph 175, 230 men were arrested in Luebeck in January 1937. Noted German Friedrich-Paul von Groszheim was among those arrested. He served ten months in prison, was later rearrested in 1938 and released upon the condition that he be castrated. During his imprisonment Groszheim, like many other gay men, was subject to torture and abuse as he stated that he was “beat[en] to a pulp” as his “whole back (was) bloody.” Prisoners were “beaten until [they] finally named names.”[