Authorities who wish to make a civil confinement must institute committal proceedings by a petition to a court of competent jurisdiction.

The mechanics of instituting civil confinement were complex.

A rushed, shabby civil confinement law would be a lasting blot on his record.

And much of the clamor for civil confinement seems to stem from faulty assumptions about recidivism.

Psychiatric matters, such as civil confinement, mental hygiene commitments, and similar proceedings.

The Senate is expected to introduce its own bill on civil confinement next week.

As for civil confinement, Assembly Democrats have been under pressure to settle differences on the issue with Republicans.

About 100 other men throughout the state were also transferred to civil confinement while the original case worked its way through the courts.