1.   Bartos, among others, is hoping for change, if for no other reason than to protect the weaker patients from further trauma by violent predators.

2.   In New York, two bills on sexually violent predators are pending, and supporters recognize the potential price.

3.   Laura Faye McCollum, one of only two women in the nation classified as violent sexual predators, lives a solitary life at Twin Rivers Correction Center.

4.   Prosecutors, meanwhile, say such a law is needed to protect the community from violent sexual predators who could act again.

5.   Texas recently joined a majority of states that allow law-abiding citizens to pack guns to protect themselves against increasingly violent predators.

6.   The men awaiting civil trials are not receiving treatment because they have not yet been found to be sexually violent predators, Heilman said.

7.   Those offenders, though deemed violent predators for purposes of community notification, were all in jail for less than a year, some for barely six months.

8.   Arizona Attorney General Janet Napolitano argued in May that the law applied only to violent sexual predators.

9.   Criminals locked up as sexually violent predators cannot try to win release merely by challenging the conditions of their confinement, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

10.   Keeping sexually violent predators confined after their prison terms expire does not automatically violate their constitutional rights, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.