North Carolina opens its first jail-based capacity restoration program in Mecklenburg County
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced that it had launched NC RISE, a capacity restoration program inside the Mecklenburg County Detention Center, on December 7, 2022. It is described as the first detention-center-based program of its kind in the state, run in partnership with the Mecklenburg Sheriff's Office and the contractor Wellpath Recovery Solutions, and funded through the Governor's Mental Health and Substance Use Task Force.
Services include psychiatric care, individual and group counseling, psychoeducation, case management and education about the court process. The department said the aim is to give defendants faster access to restoration and shorten long detention stays caused by the bottleneck at state psychiatric hospitals, quoting a department official on the nationwide strain from defendants needing capacity restoration.
The department later extended the model to other counties, including Wake.
Source: NCDHHS Offers Behavioral Health Services to Defendants Deemed Incapable to Proceed at Mecklenburg County Detention Center — North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
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