Question

​a sexual predator is nearing completion of his sentence. he has indicated that he is consumed by compulsions that he is not able to resist. corrections officials are convinced that he will re-offend upon being released. they decide to seek an order committing the offender to a secure treatment facility at the completion of his sentence. the legal basis for civil commitment can be found in the supreme court decision of:

Answer 1

When someone is detected as a threat to other citizen an order to be confined in a secure place must be obtained either for a mental illness authority as in this case or for the authority that embraces such threat, however is not easy to give all the proofs required for obtaining this order, because of this the best way to keep this person in jail is obtaining the declaration and accusation of several victims and one sentence for every one of them, or will be highly probable that the predator be free after more victims.