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1 Mark Sherman, Sex Offenders Update 1 (2002)

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Administrative Office of the U.S. Courtsefena an offede pione
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fener unerfedra suerisin proa-treatment, the program required the prisoner to conron     i
tion, supervised release, parole, or military        past sexual offenses. Refusal to participate resulted in  e
parole) remains a small fraction of the total federa defen-  duction of the prisoner's privileges and transfer to a  ai-
dant/offender population. (In 2001, 1,546 sex offenders were mum-security unit. The Court held that adverse cone-
under federal supervision out of a total of 105,751 offenders,  quences imposed by the program were not so severea  t
or about 1.5%.) Because of the unique risk they present to the  constitute compelled self-incrimination because, amn
community, however, sex offenders require a disproportion- other things, the prison environment necessarily involed
ate degree of attention from officers.               certain loss of rights.
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with the relationship between the privilege against self-in- inovdnthsaeypofexfedrtetmtI
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