California details $535 million IST solutions plan, including jail stabilization and diversion
The Department of State Hospitals' August 2022 update describes how California is spending on the recommendations of its IST Solutions Workgroup. Total authorized funding is $535.5 million in 2022-23, climbing to $638 million in 2025-26 and ongoing.
Two pillars stand out: Early Access and Stabilization Services, which provides treatment to incompetent defendants in county jails, funded at $104 million a year; and diversion and community-based restoration, funded with $468.8 million in one-time infrastructure money and $520.1 million a year once fully implemented. The document also reports that about 71 percent of people discharged after IST treatment are rearrested within three years and that most were homeless at the time of arrest.
It is the clearest statement of the 2022 shift away from building hospital beds and toward jail stabilization and diversion.
Source: Incompetent to Stand Trial Solutions Program Update — California Department of State Hospitals
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