No Exit: Challenging “Civil” Commitment and Indefinite Confinement of People Convicted of Sex Crimes

Friday, April 17, 2026 | 9:30 AM EDT - 4:30 PM EDT

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What happens when punishment never ends? Join us to confront the realities of "civil" commitment systems that subject those convicted of sex-related offenses to indefinite confinement. This in-person interdisciplinary symposium will bring together social scientists, legal scholars, mental health practitioners, lawyers, organizers, and community members to critically examine the civil commitment process. The symposium seeks to interrogate the legal frameworks, structural inequities, institutional practices, and lived realities of civil commitment systems and explore strategies for accountability, reform, and abolition.

CLE Credit: NJ: 5.5, incl. 1.2 DIEB | NY: 4.5 and 1.0 DIEB | PA 4.5, incl. 1.0 ethics

See page 2 or the program announcement for the agenda, panels, and speaker; and page 3 for CLE details.

Co-sponsored by the Rutgers Law School Center on Criminal Justice, Youth Rights, and Race; Rutgers Race & The Law Review; and Rutgers Institute for Professional Education.

Free without CLE credit with promo code NOCLE (not case-sensitive)

Free for public defenders and prosecutors with promo code PROSDEF (not case-sensitive)

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