Right, yeah, I understand it's not a patient driven decision. I'm asking because my brother in law is diagnosed mentally ill, frequently homeless, frequently placed on 5150 holds, frequently arrested for crimes, including at least once or twice being popped, at least initially, for class 4 felonies. He's got arrest warrants in Arizona and Nevada from skipping bail. He is, seemingly, permanently stuck in the county level system between SD, Orange, and LA counties, and it _does not work_.

> Almost all of the state mental hospitals are for criminal patients.

Is this a specific legal thing, like criminally insane?

> AFAIK only one is open to non-offender patients and they only take referrals.

I wasn't aware there was the possibility of referrals. We'll look into this the next time it comes around...