Michigan state report shows waits for forensic hospital beds for incompetent defendants more than quadrupled in a year
Michigan's April 2024 performance-measures report under the FY2024 budget act says that in 2022 the average wait from receipt of a court order to admission at the Center for Forensic Psychiatry was 48 days for people found incompetent to stand trial. In 2023, that number was 222 days. At other state-operated psychiatric facilities, the average rose from 75 to 138 days.
The agencies set a goal of cutting days waited by at least 10 percent. The report, issued by the state hospital administration and the Center for Forensic Psychiatry, is a primary source documenting how sharply restoration waits worsened after the pandemic years.
Source: Outcomes and Performance Measures — Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
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