Some convicted of sex crimes are simply too dangerous to be let back on the streets even after they’ve completed prison sentences.
Texas law allows courts to label these offenders as “sexually violent predators” and commit them to a treatment facility aimed at trying to repair their deep-rooted behavioral abnormalities.
No longer called inmates, these state “clients” go directly from prisons to a lockup center northwest of Lubbock where most of them stay for years, housed safely away from the public behind razor-wire fences. About 450 men reside there today.
