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From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.

This is the Daily.

Today, if you're found to be guilty of murder and sane, you could spend 25 years in prison.

But if you're found to be not guilty by reason of insanity, you could be confined to an institution

for 587 years when not guilty is actually a life sentence.

It's Friday, September 29.

Mac, tell me about the first time that you went to visit Houston at Napa State Hospital.

There's like a prison fence, like a tall fence, and there's barbed wire, and you have

to be let through a series of doors.

It's like you have to pass the one and then be in a corridor where that one is closed

before the next one will open.

Mac McLelland has been reporting on the small percentage of people who make their way through

the criminal justice system and end up in psychiatric hospitals.

And then, you know, behind this other heavy, like locked door, we're led into this room.

No colors, all of the patients are dressed in beige.

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