Persons discharged from warrants of the Lieutenant Governor

The authors compiled demographic, psychiatric, and criminological information on persons who were held on warrants of the Lieutenant Governor in Ontario. These warrants were vacated between the period 1969-1982. Of the entire population of 296 such persons, 46% were held as being Unfit to Stand Trial, 51% were Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity, and the remainder were Mentally Ill prisoners. Separate analyses were conducted with the Unfit sample. The average length of confinement on a warrant was 7 years.