Maybe. But I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s what happened. What I think happened was, the guy was involuntarily committed through the criminal justice process, and so like everyone admitted to psychiatric inpatient care --- under any circumstances ---  he was stuck until the facilities got sick of him or he lucked into a doctor that actually gave a fraction of a shit about him.<p>Unfortunately for him, private psychiatric inpatients are there on the dollar of their insurance companies, and so there&#x27;s an implicit clock ticking on their stay. The same is not the case for the utterly unaccountable state-run involuntary mental health care system.