| Description: | The Special Commitment Center (SCC), operated by the Department of Social and Health Service (DSHS), provides a specialized mental health treatment program for sexual offenders who are detained and civilly committed by the superior courts as "sexually violent predators" following the completion of their prison sentences. The SCC operates a Total Confinement Facility located on McNeil Island in Puget Sound near Steilacoom, Washington, and two Secure Community Transition Facilities, one located on McNeil Island and the other in South Seattle.
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