Kentucky health department briefing puts forensic evaluation wait at six to eight weeks, with restoration unfunded
In an August 21, 2020 presentation to the Jail and Corrections Reform Task Force, Kentucky's behavioral health department described the Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center's forensic role: 72 staffed beds, about 860 inpatient evaluations a year, an average stay of 25 days, and a wait list of 132 people with a typical wait of six to eight weeks.
The slides also state that competency restoration is not a funded service of the state psychiatric hospitals and is only attempted at the center.
The figures are useful as a pre-2022 benchmark: by late 2022 the same center's reported average wait had grown to roughly six months.
Source: Department for Behavioral Health, Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities — Kentucky Legislative Research Commission (Jail and Corrections Reform Task Force), by Kentucky Department for Behavioral Health, Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities
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