San Diego grand jury finds most jailed defendants get no restoration treatment while waiting
A San Diego County Civil Grand Jury report found that about 77 percent of people found incompetent to stand trial and held in county jail received no competency-restoration treatment at all while waiting an average of five to six months for a state hospital transfer. The county's 30-bed jail-based restoration program had no capacity for women at all.
The report recommended the county's Sheriff's Department expand both programming and staffing, one of several oversight-body findings in this backfill that identified a specific, fixable gap rather than simply documenting a general backlog.
Source: Crisis in Treatment Access for Incompetent to Stand Trial Incarcerated Persons in the County Jails — San Diego County Grand Jury, by 2022/2023 San Diego County Grand Jury
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