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What Is Custody for Federal Sex Predator Commitment?  


Author:  Fred Cohen.


Source: Volume 12, Number 04, November/December 2010 , pp.57-57(1)




Correctional Mental Health Report

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Abstract: 

Federal law authorizes civil commitment of a person “who is in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons,” and that is the question; the only question. Custody vel non.

Keywords: U.S. v. Joshua , 607 F.3d 389, Rumsfeld v. Padilla , 542 U.S. 426

Affiliations:  1: Executive Editor.

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