Report finds Colorado's competency-restoration backlog persists years after settlement
A report from the Common Sense Institute quantified Colorado's ongoing competency-restoration backlog and its fiscal costs to the state, coming years after both the 2019 consent decree and the 2022-2023 legislative overhaul that were each meant to resolve the problem.
The report underscored a theme that recurs throughout this backfill: legal settlements and legislative reform packages have repeatedly reduced Colorado's backlog temporarily, but referral growth and hospital capacity constraints have brought it back within a few years each time.
Source: Colorado's Competency Crisis — Common Sense Institute, by Erik Gamm and John Kellner
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