The intermediate care program (ICP) is a program that includes a separate housing location within a correctional facility designed to address the corrections-based therapeutic treatment of inmates currently diagnosed with what is, generally, a serious mental illness. The ICP is a therapeutic community which provides rehabilitative services to inmates who are unable to function in general population because of their mental illness. The goal of the program is to improve the inmates' ability to function through programming and treatment so that they may return to general population. In addition to inmates with a mental illness who cannot function in a general population setting, inmates with a mental illness who have a relatively short amount of confinement time to serve may be considered for keeplock in an ICP during non-program hours. After a brief orientation period and absent exceptional circumstances, in addition to exercise, inmates are offered at least four hours of structured out-of-cell therapeutic programming and/or mental health treatment on a daily basis, except on weekends and holidays. Selected ICP inmates are permitted to temporarily leave the unit to receive therapeutic and other programming in a general population setting. An ICP is not operated as a disciplinary housing unit.