{"id":800,"date":"2022-06-26T19:36:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T23:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/kansas\/?p=800"},"modified":"2022-06-26T19:36:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T23:36:18","slug":"read-and-comment-25-years-after-court-ruling-released-sex-offenders-endure-shadow-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/kansas\/read-and-comment-25-years-after-court-ruling-released-sex-offenders-endure-shadow-prisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Read and Comment: 25 Years After Court Ruling, Released Sex Offenders Endure \u2018Shadow Prisons\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_post_meta_wrapper\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><\/h1>\n<p class=\"post-meta\"><span class=\"published\">Jun 24, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>On June\u00a0 23 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court, in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/521\/346\/\"><em>Kansas v. Hendricks<\/em><\/a>, upheld the practice of detaining people convicted of sexual offenses beyond prison sentences under the guise of treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The landmark 5-4 ruling also concluded that the Kansas law governing the practice did not constitute \u00a0double jeopardy since it merely authorized \u201ccivil\u201d rather than \u201ccriminal\u201d commitments.<\/p>\n<p>Taken together with\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oyez.org\/cases\/2001\/00-957\"><em>Kansas v. Crane<\/em><\/a>, a 7-2 ruling announced in 2002 \u00a0that denied requiring a set legal standard for determining \u201cbehavioral abnormality\u201d in civil commitment proceedings, the\u00a0 High Court in effect created a purgatory for persons who have served their sentences but are subject to indefinite detention based on fears that they are a danger to the public.<\/p>\n<p>At least 20 states have involuntary sex offense civil commitment programs. So does the federal system.<\/p>\n<p>A headline\u00a0<em>in Reason Magazine<\/em>\u00a0over a story by Jacob Sullum effectively summed up what such programs amount to: \u201cCivil Commitment of Sex Offenders Pretends Prisoners Are Patients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a good reason why critics refer to these programs as \u201cshadow prisons\u201d:\u00a0 They resemble prison in all but name.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jun 24, 2022 On June\u00a0 23 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court, in\u00a0Kansas v. Hendricks, upheld the practice of detaining people convicted of sexual offenses beyond prison sentences under the guise of treatment. The landmark 5-4 ruling also concluded that the Kansas law governing the practice did not constitute \u00a0double jeopardy since it merely authorized \u201ccivil\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/kansas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/kansas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/kansas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/kansas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/kansas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/kansas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/kansas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/kansas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/kansas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/kansas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}