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Civil Commitment

Name: Civil Commitment | Due Process
Uploaded: 2017-02-25T15:00:00-05:00
Duration: 26 min 20 s
Description: Rodney Roberts, exonerated by DNA - but only after 7 years in prison and a decade in Civil Commitment - with a firsthand account of NJ's extra-judicial system of indefinite detention for those thought to be sexually violent predators. Nearly 500 men are being held with little hope of release. Joining Rodney in-studio: Jenny-Brooke Condon from Seton Hall Law School's Equal Justice Clinic.

Rodney Roberts, exonerated by DNA - but only after 7 years in prison and a decade in Civil Commitment - with a firsthand account of NJ's extra-judicial system of indefinite detention for those thought to be sexually violent predators. Nearly 500 men are being held with little hope of release. Joining Rodney in-studio: Jenny-Brooke Condon from Seton Hall Law School’s Equal Justice Clinic.

Aired: 2/25/2017 | 0:26:20

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