ABC News and the Associated Press are reporting that the state of Louisiana is currently debating joining more than a dozen other states increasing the holding of sex offender. If passed, laws could allow the sex offenders to be held past their prison sentences by sending them to mental health facilities for further treatment.

Sixteen other states have similar laws, that started in Wisconsin in 1989. The laws require a judge and/or jury to find someone either “sexually violent” or “sexually dangerous” in order to enforce the harsher penalties.

Louisiana’s Governer, Bobby Jindal, has repeatedly called sex offenders “monsters,” and last month he signed a new law that allows judges to order chemical castration of sex offenders with overwhelming approval from the State Legislature.

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