A judge committed these Maine patients to a hospital. Some say theyre being sent to prison. [Video]

Malcolm Moore is supposed to be in a hospital.

He was found not criminally responsible by reason of insanity 12 years ago after stabbing his neighbor. He had been diagnosed years earlier with paranoid schizophrenia, and mental health evaluators believed he had not been taking his medication.

Instead of prison, he was committed to the state’s Riverview Psychiatric Center in Augusta.

He spent 10 years there getting therapy and treatment. He had a room to himself.

But two years ago, Moore, who is 50 and now uses his Muslim name, Jihad Abdullah Mohammed, was transferred for unknown reasons to Columbia Regional Care Center, a controversial, for-profit facility in South Carolina, more than 1,000 miles away.

For years, Maine has quietly sent a dozen people – none of them found responsible for their crimes – to the private center that has been likened to a prison. The facility uses isolation and corrections tactics that Riverview was years ago banned from employing.

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