COEUR d'ALENE - The Idaho Department of Correction hasn't decided where two mentally ill convicted murderers from North Idaho will start spending their lengthy prison sentences.

Larry W. Cragun, 32, who was convicted of attacking four members of a family in Bayview with a framing hammer and kitchen knife, was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison. He killed 43-year-old Patty Heath and nearly killed her mother-in-law in December 2010.

Cragun, who was sentenced May 15, is a paranoid schizophrenic who suffers from delusions and hallucinations.

Melisa R. Bates, 28, was sentenced last week to 30 years to life in prison for killing her uncle, 43-year-old Robert D. Marek, in May of last year at his home just south of St. Maries along Highway 3.

Bates has received multiple diagnoses and is severely mentally ill.

Jeff Ray, a spokesman for the Idaho Department of Correction, said Wednesday the first stop for all inmates is at the department's reception and diagnostic units.

The men's reception and diagnostic unit is at the Idaho State Correctional Institution south of Boise. The women's is at the Pocatello Women's Correction Center.

Inmates typically are at those units for two to four weeks, during which time they undergo a variety of tests to help placement teams decide which correctional facility would be the best fit, Ray said.

Cragun arrived at the Boise facility on May 22, while Bates has not yet begun the process. She remains in a county jail awaiting transport, Ray said.

"As a result, we don't know where they will be incarcerated" during their prison terms, he said.

He said that due to privacy issues, he couldn't comment on what type of mental-health treatment Bates or Cragun might receive while in the custody of the state.