Indeed, the deprivation of liberty at stake may, according to the United States Supreme Court, be even more serious than criminal incarceration: In many respects, confinement in a mental institution is even more intrusive than incarceration in a prison. Inmates .2d 115 (1995) ("[T]he state has a compelling interest in protecting the public from dangerous mentally disordered persons ... ."); cf. Addington v. Texas, 441 U.S. 418, 426 (1979) ("The state has a legitimate interest under its parens patriae powers in providing care to its citizens who are unable because of emotional disorders to care for themselves; the state also has authority under its police power to protect the community from the dangerous tendencies of some who are mentally ill."). 33 Post, 197 Wis. 2d at 313-14 (<HOLDING>); see State v. Rachel, 2002 WI 81, 254 Wis. 2d
holding that doctrine does not violate equal protection holding transfer rule did not violate federal equal protection holding that the cap does not violate equal protection holding that the state law violated equal protection principles holding that ch 980 does not violate principles of equal protection