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Some question Va's costly civil commitment program

By "eAdvocate"

12-19-2010 Virginia: BURKEVILLE, Va. (AP) -- Virginia's program to indefinitely detain sexually violent predators was made for people like Richard Ausley, a repeat child molester who kidnapped a 13-year-old boy, locked him in an underground box and raped him for a week until the boy was rescued. But the mental health facility that houses violent sex offenders also confines dozens of convicts that state officials say could be conditionally released if they had somewhere to go. With more than 200 sex offenders being held after their prison sentences have ended - and Gov. Bob McDonnell proposing spending millions more on a new facility to house them - some question whether Virginia's program to civilly commit the "worst of the worst" has gone too far...continue to full post

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