Hosie

Jacobs; J.

While serving a State prison term for rape, the petitioner, in 1986, was adjudged a sexually dangerous person under the provisions of G. L. c. 123A, § 6,1 and committed to a term of one day to life at a treatment center. Before us is the petitioner’s appeal from the denial by a Superior Court judge of *625his petition for habeas corpus relief filed in June, 1999. We affirm that denial.

In 1976, the petitioner, then fifteen years old, pleaded guilty to charges of kidnapping and raping a sixteen year old female at knife point and was sentenced to concurrent twelve year terms at MCI,…