“At this time, we are working to fill positions in order to bring beds back online, increasing the number of people we can serve,” said Tiffany Young, Texas Health and Human Services spokesperson. Story by TexasTribune.
More than 2,500 mentally ill defendants wait in Texas county jails for months and sometimes more than a year for the kind of intense therapy and medication treatment available only through the state’s psychiatric hospital system.Ronald Singer was arrested and charged more than a year ago for the murder of his ex-wife and the kidnapping of their child.
“We simply have significantly more people who need treatment than we can currently provide for, and the involuntary inability to comply with that order is a complete defense to contempt,” said What officials did not foresee was a global pandemic, which not only exacerbated mental health workforce shortages but also kept those with serious mental illness from treatment. Expertsthat mentally ill individuals are not more violent than the general population but even so, they can be arrested for more minor crimes like loitering.
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