Sentence examples for civil commitments from inspiring English sources

Because New Jersey keeps no public records about civil commitments, it is hard to know who has been committed or why.

Last year, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va., unanimously ruled that none of the powers granted to Congress in the Constitution empowered it to authorize such civil commitments.

Given the costs and legal troubles of such civil commitments, some states are exploring alternatives, said Roxanne Lieb, director of the Washington State Institute for Public Policy, which tracks how sex predator laws play out there and around the country.

The evidence is only anecdotal, but lawyers and psychologists say it appears that juries are likelier than judges to let sex offenders out, during civil commitments and when offenders bring their yearly appeals for release from treatment centers.

Experts in juvenile justice say that the case is an anomaly but that it highlights the somewhat foggy terrain of so-called civil commitments as applied to juvenile sex offenders.

The Circuit Court handles the rest of the cases in the county, including most of the divorce cases, juvenile matters, CHINS cases, civil proceedings, probate, estates, adoptions, civil commitments, and other civil cases.

As of December 2015, 214 people had been discharged from New Jersey's civil commitment program, out of the 731 committed since the statute was brought into force.

In a regular civil commitment, the focus is on the patient's current state of mind; crimes committed long ago are usually not considered relevant.

He is also fighting civil commitment.

At times, he laughed at the idea of civil commitment.

To some people, civil commitment is the only way".