ACLU sues Kansas over Larned State Hospital wait times
The ACLU of Kansas and the National Police Accountability Project sued state disability-services officials, alleging people found incompetent to stand trial were waiting more than two years in some cases for a bed at Larned State Hospital, the facility handling most of the state's competency-restoration admissions.
The case would take more than two years to resolve, ending in a 2024 settlement that committed the state to reopening beds that had sat closed despite the ongoing waitlist.
Source: Kansas settles case exposing long psychiatric care wait times for inmates — Kansas Reflector, by Anna Kaminski
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