[Note: Friends of Justice is a personal blog. I speak only for myself.]
Tim Gruber for The New York Times
“But now Minnesota’s civil commitment program — which detains more people per capita than any other state — is facing an overhaul. Earlier this year, a federal judge found it unconstitutional, calling it ‘a punitive system that segregates and indefinitely detains a class of potentially dangerous individuals without the safeguards of the criminal justice system.'”
Read the New York Times article by Monica Davey.
