Mississippi doubles forensic hospital capacity with new 83-bed unit
Mississippi State Hospital's new $36.5 million, 83-bed maximum-security forensic building, set to open in January 2025, will raise the state's forensic bed capacity from 65 to 123. The expansion addressed a waitlist that stood at 68 people, 55 of them in jail, as of August 2024.
The Treatment Advocacy Center had ranked Mississippi as having the nation's second-longest competency wait times, giving the new capacity outsized significance relative to the state's overall system size.
Source: State's forensic beds to double in 2025 — Mississippi Today, by Gwen Dilworth
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