[USA] The New Disappeared : Sex Offenders, Civil Confinement and the Resurrection of Evil / Counterpunch, 10 May 2007
http://www.counterpunch.org/rosen05102007.html
DAVID ROSEN
"One of the first acts of New York's newly-elected "liberal" governor, Eliot Spitzer, was to secure passage of the nation's most far-reaching civil confinement law. With its passage, New York joined nineteen other states that permit the continued imprisonment of sex offenders after they have completed their prison sentence. These inmates are defined as suffering a mental disorder and, thus, posing the threat of committing new crimes upon release. Civil confinement permits the state to transform a criminal sentence with a specified duration into an indeterminate life sentence."