Once I have been found to be a MDO, when and how often will my MDO status be reviewed?
The BPH must review your status as a MDO when you reach your presumptive discharge date (PDD: the date when you should be discharged early from parole, unless the BPH finds a good reason to keep you; see PG. 153). At that date, the BPH must decide to recommend either that you continue in your MDO inpatient placement, or that you be discharged.[604] If the BPH recommends that you continue in your MDO placement, it MUST hold re-commitment proceedings, which are similar to the original MDO commitment procedures (see PG. 176 for information about the initial MDO classification process that happens in prison).[605] Before you are re-committed, you should receive written notice of the decision.[606] If you are re-committed multiple times as a MDO, you could end up serving your entire parole term in a DSH hospital.[607]
WHAT IS “RE-COMMITMENT”?
Re-commitment is the process by which DSH decides that a person is still a MDO and must be confined in a DSH facility for another year.