Jessica's Law may not be hospitalizing more post-prison sex offenders
Monday, August 11, 2008 - 13:14
in Health & Medicine
Under the law, more inmates who have completed their prison terms are being evaluated and recommended for indefinite hospitalization. But the number of commitments has not increased. When voters overwhelmingly approved Jessica's Law in fall 2006, many assumed it would lock away predatory child molesters and rapists who had slipped through the cracks of existing law.