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Warren Jeffs has been incarcerated since 2011 in a Texas prison, serving life plus 20 years for child sexual assault. The FLDS still operates as a 6,000-10,000-member multi-state polygamous network under his smuggled-from-prison directives.
Three landmark prosecutions — Peoples Temple in 1978, FLDS through the 2000s, and NXIVM in 2017–2020 — set the precedents most modern coercive-control cases turn on. This post explains what each case established and how those rulings shape investigations today.