He announced in an October 2005 press release that every sexually violent predator in state custody would be evaluated for involuntary civil commitment once that person was released from prison.

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Segal at the University of California, Berkeley, "Civil Commitment Law, Mental Health Services, and U.S. Homicide Rates, " found that a third of the state-to-state variation in homicide rates was attributable to the strength or weakness of involuntary civil-commitment laws.

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