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'Dangerous' Sex Offenders Can Be Imprisoned Indefinitely, Supreme Court Rules

In a span of just a few minutes Monday morning, the Supreme Court exhibited the breadth and complexity of the nation's sentencing laws. In one ruling, the justices declared that juvenile defendants may not be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for non-capital crimes. And in the other ruling, the justices declared that some mentally ill sex offenders may be kept indefinitely in "civil confinement" despite already having done the time for their crimes. With the latter decision, the court gives great comfort to prosecutors, the police and victims' rights groups, who ...

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