Definition
Secure inpatient facilities which provide mental health assessment and treatment services for presentence defendants and defendants found "not guilty by reason of insanity" by the courts. Some facilities may also admit dangerous, civil psychiatric patients who cannot be controlled in a civil setting and mentally ill jail inmates on an emergency, temporary basis. Admissions to forensic psychiatric hospitals are court-ordered and involuntary.
URL Name
RM-3300-6500-200
Third Level Code
RM-3300
Taxonomy Code
RM-3300.6500-200
Parent Code
RM-3300.6500
Family Code
R
Second Level Code
RM
Fifth Level Code
RM-3300-6500-200
Fourth Level Code
RM-3300-6500
Use References
Forensic Hospitals
Publication Status
Online