The key to making fewer hospital beds necessary is to make involuntary commitment easier.

They may then be referred to local health services for further assessment and potential involuntary commitment.

In 1999 he was sentenced to an additional five years of involuntary commitment.

This problem often gets played out through the laws regulating the involuntary civil commitment of a person to a psychiatric hospital.

Under current laws, involuntary commitment is limited to people deemed by a judge to be a danger to themselves or others.

His involuntary commitment and the period that followed did not render him inactive, however.

The earliest involuntary commitment that law enforcement officials have found occurred on June 30, 1996.

She was released in late January after about eleven weeks of involuntary commitment and returned to the streets.

There is, though, an alternative - a petition for involuntary civil commitment.