USA TODAY: The federal government has sharply scaled back a controversial effort to keep dangerous sexual predators in prison past their sentences after losing more than half the detention cases it filed.
The U.S. Justice Department has said its program is critical for protecting the public, but it has been beset by problems since it began seven years ago. Most of its attempts to keep accused predators locked up have failed. Along the way, it kept dozens of men in prison for years without a hearing, relied on medical determinations that proved faulty and faced a succession of legal battles over whether it even has the power to keep people locked up indefinitely.
Even as courts are increasingly signing off on that power, prosecutors are using it far less… (more)
EDITOR: As concern as we might be concerning the future actions by sexual predicators, by what right can anyone be kept in jail beyond his or her sentence? We need to search for a better and humane solution.
