The MAGEN prison for the Mentally Disturbed

The division of legal psychiatrics, also called the Center for Mental Health (in Hebrew initials: MABAN), is located within the MAGEN prison. The division contains two psychiatric wards (an opened and a closed one), and a national ambulatory service, which is provided in the clinics of all prisons. 

The psychiatric medical staff belongs to the Ministry of Health and includes: Psychiatrists, criminologists, occupational therapists, psychologists, a nursing staff and a social worker; as well as prison guards, who are qualified paramedics and are employed by the IPS.

Some of the prisoners and detainees held in these wards were hospitalized willingly (as they were referred for hospitalization by the various prisons), while others have been admitted forcefully wither for a court ordered observation or according to the order of the regional psychiatrist. The hospitalization and treatment in the MABAN wards is done according to the law for the care of the mentally ill and the Patients' Rights act. Most of the prisoners hospitalized in the wards suffer from a variety of mental illnesses and disturbances; and are treated with psychiatric medication, private sessions, private and group occupational therapy, and group expressional and creative therapy.

The MABAN ambulatory service includes psychiatric supervision; evaluations of dangerousness; and designated group therapy for sex offenders.