Kirby_Forensic_Psychiatric_Center
Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center
Psychiatric hospital in New York City
Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center is a maximum-security facility for the mentally ill on Wards Island in New York City,[1] operated by the New York State Office of Mental Health as one of two psychiatric hospitals in the state that treat felony patients.[2] The building, described as "fortresslike", is adjacent to the Manhattan Psychiatric Center.[3] Of its more than 200 patients, 50 are deemed criminally insane; it houses pre-trial detainees unfit to stand trial as well as convicted defendants granted an insanity plea. Among its famous historical inmates was murderer and cannibal Daniel Rakowitz.[3]