Opinion ID: 4529083
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Heading: D Stability Code and Guilty but Mentally Ill

Text: Inmates The D Stability Code that Dooley seeks applies to inmates who have the most significant mental health needs and entitles them to the greatest amount of mental health resources available. Pa. DOC Reg. § 13.8.1(1)(B)(2)(g)(1)(d). DOC policy specifies that certain inmates should be listed on the “D Roster,” including those who have been found guilty but 3 mentally ill (GBMI). Pa. DOC Reg. § 13.8.1(2)(A)(1)(a)(4)(d), (J)(3)(a). When a jury renders a GBMI verdict in Pennsylvania, the court must hear testimony and make a finding as to whether the defendant is, at the time of sentencing, “severely mentally disabled,” requiring treatment under the Mental Health Procedures Act. 42 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 9727(a). Some aspects of DOC policy differentiate between inmates found GBMI and determined to be severely mentally disabled (Category I) and those found GBMI but determined not to be severely mentally disabled (Category II). See Pa. DOC Reg. § 13.8.1(2)(J)(1)(b). All GBMI inmates must be placed on the D Roster when they first arrive at the DOC and subsequently receive regular psychiatric evaluation. Id. at § 13.8.1(2)(J)(3).