As reported in the January 18, 2010 Rhode Island Lawyers Weekly, the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has held that provisions of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act which “provides for the civil commitment of a sexually dangerous person already in federal criminal custody in lieu of that person’s release upon service of his full sentence, we hold that this civil commitment provision ‘comes within the legitimate scope of congressional power conferred by the Necessary and Proper Clause of the federal Constitution.’”  Furthermore, “the exercise of a federal commitment power embodied in [18 U.S.C.] §4248 operates to prevent the release into society at large of sexually dangerous persons as to whom the federal government has custodial responsibility.”

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