Despite documented changes in the not-guilty-byreason-of-insanity (NGRI) defense during the past 15 years, most states and the federal government continue to recognize the underlying principle that some mentally ill defendants must be viewed in a different light when assigning criminal responsibility. Although the NGRI defense is rarely invoked and is not usually successful, some individuals nationwide are found NGRI each year, creating complex dispositional questions for mental health agencies, courts, and patient advocacy groups. In most states that recognize some version of the NGRI verdict, statutory guidelines direct procedures for a disposition after NGRI acquittal. Although the general nature of these statutes mandates immediate commitment to a treatment facility, the parameters of commitment vary significantly between jurisdictions. Frequently, these statutes fail to cover the use of therapeutic passes, a clinical tool used to ease the transition of patients into the community before conditional release. Specifically, statutory language frequently fails to address the crucial matter of who bears decisionmaking responsibility for allowing patients to have therapeutic passes: clinicians or the courts. In this article, we explore a recent case in South Carolina in which the very definition of the word commitment was in dispute, leading to a larger discussion about how decision-making authority regarding therapeutic passes was to be divided between the department of mental health, the office of attorney general, and the original trial court. A detailed review of the case will be followed by a discussion of the results of a state-by-state survey on the question of therapeutic passes for this population. Finally, a discussion of the broader issues involving this area of post-trial management of insanity acquittees will be presented.

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Commitment versus confinement: therapeutic passes in the management of insanity acquittees.

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Commitment versus confinement: therapeutic passes in the management of insanity acquittees.