Sex Predator Sentencing Law Now Applies To More Crimes

Some time ago, MANN posted an article about a new sexual predator law which intended to keep people convicted of sexual crimes locked up longer than their actual sentences. According to this story in the Des Moines Register, this law is now being used to keep people who have been convicted of other crimes behind bars beyond their sentences. The following problems now arise: if we're going to ingore sentencing, why have it at all? Does this mean that anyone can now be locked up indefinitely for any offense? What happened to "he paid his debt to society?"

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