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  2. Special Commitment Center - Wikipedia

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    The Special Commitment Center (SCC) in the US state of Washington is a post-prison-sentence treatment institution for people designated as sexually violent predators, located on McNeil Island. Civil commitment is the subject of controversy because it allows the involuntary civil confinement of a sex offender after the court's sentence has been ...

  3. Involuntary commitment - Wikipedia

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    Criteria for involuntary commitment are generally set by the individual states, and often have both short- and long-term types of commitment. Short-term commitment tends to be a few days or less, requiring an examination by a medical professional, while longer-term commitment typically requires a court hearing, or sentencing as part of a ...

  4. WA confined hundreds for sexual violence. Then it quietly ...

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    Since 2014, the Special Commitment Center program’s budget has increased by more than 115% while the number of people civilly committed has fallen by more than 35%. The average per-person cost ...

  5. Whatcom County sex offender will be detained at McNeil Island ...

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    Washington was the first state to allow such involuntary civil commitments of sex offenders who have served criminal sentences, and the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld their constitutionality.

  6. Sexually violent predator laws - Wikipedia

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    The legislature finds that a small but extremely dangerous group of sexually violent predators exist who do not have a mental disease or defect that renders them appropriate for the existing involuntary treatment act . . . which is intended to be a short-term civil commitment system that is primarily designed to provide short-term treatment to ...

  7. Letters: Involuntary commitment data still missing in Centre ...

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    “Centre County’s involuntary commitment data are in limbo and the system’s effectiveness remains unassessed,” State College residents write.

  8. Grave disability - Wikipedia

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    Grave disability or gravely disabled is a legal status used as a criterion in addition to danger to self or others [1] as the basis for involuntary commitment [2] in only 9 of 50 states of the United States. [3] It is not a criterion in Washington, D.C.

  9. Baker Act - Wikipedia

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    Every state has a mental health statute, with many similar to the Baker Act, but also differences across states in short-term emergency commitment (the equivalent of an involuntary [Baker Act] examination in [9] Florida), [10] long-term involuntary commitment (the equivalent of involuntary inpatient placement in Florida), [11] and involuntary ...