{"id":1756,"date":"2016-11-08T20:11:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T20:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2016-11-08T20:11:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T20:11:07","slug":"ma-sex-offenders-suing-department-of-corrections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/2016\/11\/08\/ma-sex-offenders-suing-department-of-corrections\/","title":{"rendered":"MA Sex Offenders Suing Department of Corrections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of plaintiffs filed a civil suit on Monday, October 17th arguing that the civil commitment process for some sex offenders in Massachusetts has violated state law.\u00a0 In a civil commitment, sex offenders deemed &#8220;sexually dangerous&#8221; may be held at the Massachusetts Treatment Center after the completion of their prison sentences.\u00a0\u00a0The DOC\u00a0is required to release detainees when they are no longer deemed dangerous, but the plaintiffs in the lawsuit allege that they\u00a0were detained past this date.\u00a0 The lawsuit seeks an end to the practice of keeping detainees past their ordered release date as well as $5 million in damages.\u00a0 Read more about the lawsuit and the plaintiffs\u00a0on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/2016\/10\/17\/sex-offenders-suing-state-doc-alleging-they-were-unlawfully-detained-after-being-ordered-set-free\/EQgptBW8fWndhPc4ShIKkM\/story.html?event=event25\">Boston Globe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of plaintiffs filed a civil suit on Monday, October 17th arguing that the civil commitment process for some sex offenders in Massachusetts has violated state law.\u00a0 In a civil commitment, sex offenders deemed &#8220;sexually dangerous&#8221; may be held at the Massachusetts Treatment Center after the completion of their prison sentences.\u00a0\u00a0The DOC\u00a0is required to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-constitutional-rights","category-local","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}