Merlin Ohlinger v. Robert J. Watson, Administrator, Corrections Division of the State of Oregon

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• holding that sex offenders committed to indeterminate life sentences have a constitutional right to treatment providing a realistic opportunity for cure or improvement
• stating civilly com mitted persons are entitled to mental health treatment that gives them a realistic opportunity to be cured and released; standard is one only required to provide a “ ‘reasonable level of treatment based upon a reasonable cost and time basis’ ”
• “Adequate and effective treatment is constitutionally required because, absent treatment, appellants could be held indefinitely as a result of their mental illness .... ”
• indeterminate sentence for sex offender analogous to civil commitment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).