State legislators may not like Governor Eliot Spitzer’ call for an end to gerrymandering, but they sure like his insistence on a civil-confinement law. The law would let the state send some sex offenders to psychiatric facilities after they serve their prison sentence. And when Spitzer endorsed it in his State of the State address […]
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The missing pieces in the sex-offender debate
Justice State legislators trooped back to Albany for one day last week, primarily to try to iron out differences on a tough new sex-offender law. But despite the media attention before the special session, legislators failed once again to reach an agreement. The law, which New York politicians have been haggling over for 13 years, […]
