CT HB07090

Court or Psychiatric Security Review Board must determine whether acquittees found not guilty by reason of insanity requiring confinement need maximum security conditions.

Acquittees requiring maximum security cannot be confined in psychiatric hospitals or with the Commissioner of Developmental Services unless those facilities have trained staff, equipped facilities, and security to accommodate maximum security patients.

Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services may transfer maximum security acquittees to other facilities if they need medical treatment unavailable in maximum security settings or if medical equipment would create safety hazards.

Commissioner must ensure transferred acquittees receive maximum security-equivalent custody conditions at the receiving facility and must provide written justification to the board immediately upon transfer.

Transferred acquittees must return to maximum security settings upon completion of their medical treatment.