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25 Years After Court Ruling, Released Sex Offenders Endure ‘Shadow Prisons’

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Supreme Court, in Kansas v. The landmark 5-4 ruling also concluded that the Kansas law governing the practice did not constitute double jeopardy since it merely authorized “civil” rather than “criminal” commitments. On June 23 1997, the U.S. Taken together with Kansas v.