Virginia
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Virginia Beach opens jail-based restoration pod to cut waits for state hospital beds
Source: WTKR News 3, by John Hood
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Virginia audit finds no clear policy for forensic-patient custody transfers Statewide
Source: VPM, by Dean Mirshahi
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Evaluator shortage delays competency cases in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley
Source: WHSV, by Colby Johnson
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Virginia legislative commission finds competency restoration is crowding civil patients out of state hospitals Statewide
Source: Virginia Behavioral Health Commission
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Virginia lets courts divert incompetent misdemeanor defendants to civil evaluation instead of restoration Statewide
Source: Virginia Legislative Information System, by Virginia General Assembly (introduced by Sen. T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason)
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UVA study finds misdemeanor defendants crowd Virginia's state hospitals for competency restoration Statewide
Source: Virginia Mercury, by Kate Masters
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Family of Virginia jail detainee who died awaiting a hospital bed receives $3 million settlement
Source: WTKR (News 3), Norfolk, by Web Staff
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Virginia inspector general's review of an inmate's death flags missing records and a lost hospital transfer order
Source: Associated Press (via KSL.com), by Associated Press
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Death of a jailed man awaiting a hospital bed puts Virginia's forensic waits in focus
Source: The Virginian-Pilot, by Gary Harki