Follow-up study of Washington, DC's outpatient competence restoration program covers 345 referrals
Researchers updated the earlier description of the District of Columbia's outpatient competence restoration program with four more years of data. They analyzed demographics, restoration rates and time to restoration for 345 participants and reported that 97, or 28.1 percent, were restored.
Nearly 40 percent of those restored achieved competence by the third round of intervention, and restoration rates did not differ significantly across the first five rounds, though the sixth round differed. The authors conclude that program improvements have increased its ability to restore defendants beyond their first attempt, supporting repeated cycles of restoration for people who need them.
The program is one of the longer-running community-based models in the country and the paper contributes outcome data to the debate over where restoration should happen.
Source: An update on outpatient competence restoration outcomes: The Washington DC Model — Journal of Forensic Science and Research, by Reston N Bell, Phillip J Candilis, Nicole R Johnson
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