Arkansas
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Arkansas jails hold well over a hundred people waiting a year or more for state hospital beds Statewide
Source: KTLO
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Arkansas overhauls how courts get mental evaluations of criminal defendants Statewide
Source: Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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Arkansas State Hospital is full and understaffed while 79 Pulaski County inmates wait on forensic evaluations
Source: KARK (Little Rock)
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Arkansas bill would split fitness and criminal-responsibility exams to cut jail time awaiting State Hospital evaluations Statewide
Source: Arkansas Times, by Leslie Newell Peacock
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Pulaski County inmate ordered to the Arkansas State Hospital waits weeks as evaluation backlog grows
Source: KARK (Little Rock)