[Vicissitudes of hospitalization and emergency in a Prison Psychiatric hospital]

This paper evaluates the Reform of the Psychiatrist Central Ward for Men (Unit 20 of the Federal Prison System). The aim is to study the process of adopting a new paradigm for medically assisting psychiatric prisoner-patients and its consequences. It concludes that the medical condition of a psychiatric prisoner should be clarified and referred to the Department of Forensic Medicine by a Criminal Court straightaway, and that the Department of Forensic Medicine should act more promptly. It also suggests the relative reduction in working hours of both teams.