Describes a program that prepares mentally ill male prisoners for reentry into society that is administered through a prison's mental health center. The participants are all diagnosed as having Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) disorders, and they are treated as if their diagnosis was separate from the acts that caused their incarceration. A single patient's change illustrates movement through denial, anger, bargaining, and depression to acceptance. The difficulties faced by the treatment team and the patients in correctional institutions are reviewed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)