Sentences with phrase «offenders in psychiatric hospitals»
«Despite Sen. Schneiderman's best efforts, the bill became law, making New York the 20th state in the nation to detain convicted sex offenders in psychiatric hospitals after they have served their prison sentences.
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The U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is examining New York's controversial system of civil confinement for sex offenders, which allows convicted sex offenders to be kept in secure psychiatric hospitals indefinitely after their prison terms.
The state - run psychiatric hospital that houses civilly confined sex offenders has barred them from participating in monthly phone conferences on treatment and developments in the laws that allow their incarceration.
He understood that many were violent criminals, but even repeat offenders tended to do only short prison stints, or they were released from psychiatric hospitals because they were diagnostically sane, displaying «a perfect mask of genuine sanity, a flawless surface indicative in every respect of robust mental health.»
The risk of reoffending due to mental illness can tip the scales in the direction of not releasing the offender from a closed psychiatric hospital even if the full prison sentence is served or parole might normally be considered.
My training included work in an acute residential psychiatric hospital working with adolescent boys on the behaviorally aggressive and sexual offender units.