Psychiatric services : a journal of the American Psychiatric Association
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Over 350,000 immigrants are detained by U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) each year. ⋯ In some cases, they were able to secure release of detainees into inpatient care in community (nonforensic) settings, which involved substantial logistical challenges. Given the well-documented concerns about securing adequate care for ICE detainees with mental illness, a logical policy change would be for ICE to allow these patients to enter court-ordered inpatient care. This move would improve care for patients and would also unburden ICE from the untenable proposition of caring for patients that the criminal justice system has deemed unfit for incarceration.