It allows a person deemed "sexually dangerous" to be civilly committed after the expiration of a federal criminal sentence.
To maintain that an insanity acquittee remain civilly committed to a psychiatric institution until he is no longer a danger to himself or others is unconstitutional.
Minnesota, Wisconsin and South Dakota allow women who continue to use substances while pregnant to be civilly committed.
Donaldson was evaluated, diagnosed with "paranoid schizophrenia," and civilly committed to the Florida State mental health system.
If those final two reach agreement, the prisoner is then a ward of the state and civilly committed to CSH.
The psychologist recommended that the defendant be civilly committed as a dangerous person.
Currently the hospital treats patients with severe mental disabilities who have been civilly or forensically committed to the institution.
Since pedophilia is defined as a mental abnormality under the Act, the court ordered that Hendricks be civilly committed.