CIVIL CONFINEMENT/COMMITTMENT

Antonio Lasaga, a 54 year old former Yale University professor, was charged with sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy. He has been charged with two counts of first-degree sexual assault, risking more...

A system that would keep convicted sex offenders confined after their prison term is expected to require hundreds of state personnel and more than $80 million a year. It was not immediately more...

Saying that women and children need protection from sexual predators inclined to strike again once they are released from prison, Assemblyman Steven Labriola, a Massapequa Park Republican, is more...

In the unlikely event that Richard Ausley gets out of prison anytime soon, it's even more unlikely he will come to Roanoke. Ausley is a sex offender whose crimes, which include keeping one of more...

A Supreme Court ruled that keeping sexually violent predators confined after their prison terms expire does not automatically violate their constitutional rights. In an 8-1 ruling in the case of more...

Andre Brigham Young was convicted of five different rapes over a 31 year period. Today the Supreme Court agreed to consider squelching his attempt to get out from under his designation in more...

Dozens of convicted sex offenders who were kept locked up past their prison terms under former Governor George Pataki because they were deemed still dangerous have been quietly released in recent more...

Governor Pataki and legislators are close to agreeing on new law that could keep dangerous sex offenders locked up in a hospital after their jail terms end. New York would be one of about 20 more...

Joseph P. Smith, 39, has been charged with 11 year old Carlie Brucia's murder. He is the tattooed man in a mechanic's shirt who was seen in a car wash surveillance video leading Carlie away by more...

A convicted rapist likely serves less than 3 years in prison. A convicted sexual abuser spends about a year and a half in prison and a sexual offender convicted of a lesser felony likely sees more...