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Map showing there are more than 6,000 people across 20 states in civil commitment systems in 2022

Data Source: Sex Offender Civil Commitment Programs Network Annual Survey, 2022. Four jurisdictions did not participate in the 2022 survey: Nebraska's count is from 2018, New Hampshire's from 2020, South Carolina's from 2021, and the federal Bureau of Prisons' from 2017. (Map: Wendy Sawyer, 2023)

This map originally appeared in What is civil commitment? Recent report raises visibility of this shadowy form of incarceration.

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