The civil commitment of sex offenders has been found to be constitutional.

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The United States Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of civil commitment of sex offenders in multiple cases, including Kansas v. Hendricks (1997) and United States v. Comstock (2010). In these cases, the Court ruled that the government has a legitimate interest in protecting society from sexually dangerous individuals, and that civil commitment programs, which allow for the continued detention and treatment of individuals who have completed their prison sentences but are deemed to be at risk of reoffending, do not violate the Constitution's guarantees of due process or double jeopardy.

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