Fwd: The Dobbs Wire: Out of control Prosecution!

The Dobbs Wire: A case unfolding in Virginia has much to tell us about justice in the U.S. For crime the legal system provides punishment, usually incarceration. In cases of sex wrongdoing, after prison time is done and the price is paid, 20 states and the federal government have something extra – laws that allow keeping an individual locked up, often indefinitely, on a hunch, a mere guess that they might break the law in the future. On the eve of trial for a Virginia gay man, Philip Fornaci and Roger Lancaster spotlight how these ‘civil commitment’ laws can be…