Chapter 6 – Adult Classification

62080.9 Outpatient Psychiatric Care

• Outpatient care shall provide a supportive milieu in a program designed to maintain or improve social and psychiatric functioning.

• Category “J”

  • Inmates in an outpatient psychiatric treatment program shall be designated Category “J”. They may be received from reception centers or other institutions diagnosed as suffering from a major mental illness sufficiently disabling to prevent adjustment to the general population without psychiatric intervention.