Re:It's Time to Mandate Treatment of the Dangerously Mentall...
by ROTMetro on Thursday October 06, 2022 @12:47PM
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It's worth noting that the same rules and protection that get applied to criminal sentences do not apply to 'treatment' and 'treatment providers' in sentencing. There are cases when treatment providers overrule/ignore judges orders and the treatment provider prevails. 18 U.S. Code § 3553(a)(2)(D) is used as a carveout for treatment in Federal code so that treatment providers can impose 'whatever is the most effective manner' even if treatment imposes rules that the Judge would not be able to impose. The Judge orders treatment, and the treatment provider then has carte blanche to impose their own sentence rules (the rules of treatment) even though in the USA only a Judge is supposed to be able to determine a sentence.
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