Missouri AG Wants Power to Hold Sexual Offenders Indefinitely
A "secure state mental institution" is a rose by another name
There is a special wing here at the county jail that holds nine detainees who were convicted long ago for sex crimes. They already served their time in prison.
Still, they wear bright orange jumpsuits as they await another kind of trial.
Flagged as possible sexually violent predators, the Missouri attorney general's office wants them held indefinitely at a secure state mental institution called Sex Offender Rehabilitation and Treatment Services, or SORTS.
h/t Mark Sletten
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