Kansas county launches outpatient competency restoration as inmates wait a year or more for Larned or Osawatomie
About ten inmates in Douglas County were waiting for treatment, and the sheriff described one man who spent six years in custody awaiting trial and was eventually convicted and sentenced to just 16 months. The state-grant-funded program lets local providers deliver restoration services that, until a 2022 law change, could be provided only by state hospitals.
The story also notes that the state is building the South Central Regional Psychiatric Hospital in Wichita, expected to open in early 2027, and that ACLU of Kansas litigation over the waitlist was continuing.
Source: Kansas inmates wait in jail for months for mental health treatment. That might change — KCUR, by Dylan Lysen
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