They are considered the worst of Virginia's sexual predators, a community of 61 men deemed so dangerous that even after completing their prison sentences, they remain locked up.
A towering, razor-lined fence keeps them in a complex called the Virginia Center for Behavioral Rehabilitation. Although the facility is classified as a mental institution, it has the look of an isolated prison.
In theory, the state hopes to rehabilitate these career child abusers and rapists so that they can be trusted back on the streets.
But to date, no one has been freed.
The men are confined indefinitely under Virginia's four-year-old civil commitment program, which allows chronic sexual predators to be institutionalized after serving their prison sentences.
Eighteen other states have similar regiments and the U.S. Supreme Court has declared them constitutional
There is no convincing evidence that therapy changes chronic molesters, particularly pedophiles.
Does any therapy really help sex offenders?
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