This is not in the best interest of public safety. If people can't find housing they can't survive.
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That doesn't make these cases any less tragic, of course. But they may just not be the right kinds of cases on which to base broad social policy.Jill Levenson
When people feel they have nothing and are hopeless, then that actually causes an increase in the likelihood that they'll return to the life of crime,
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We don't really have a way to answer that yet, partly because there have been so few people released from civil commitment and partly because the number who have been committed is also low.
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Here we're talking about somebody who was considered for civil commitment - a high-risk offender who is going to need intensive treatment and monitoring well after leaving the center - but there is nothing in the law that accounts for that.
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What happens is that these guys are being pushed farther and farther in to rural communities where they have less access to the treatment in mental health they need, less access to employment opportunities ... and they may be more difficult to monitor and supervise,
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