Louisiana agrees to end long wait for psychiatric hospital transfers
The Advocacy Center of Louisiana and the MacArthur Justice Center settled a lawsuit against the Louisiana Department of Health, which agreed to transfer incompetent and insanity-acquittee detainees to state hospitals within 15 days, or two days for acute crises, after wait times that had exceeded a year in some cases and had crept back above an earlier 30-day consent-decree limit.
The case was among the earliest state-specific competency settlements in this backfill, coming several years before similar agreements in Alabama, Kansas, and Oklahoma.
Source: Settlement reached in suit to get treatment for mentally ill detainees — The Advocate (Baton Rouge), by Joe Gyan Jr.
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