Nevada opens Stein forensic unit in Las Vegas to treat jailed defendants found incompetent
The Review-Journal toured the new Stein Forensic Unit in Las Vegas, which took its first patients on November 19, 2015. The maximum-security unit began with six patients and had grown to 12 by the time of the report, with a full complement of 47 beds expected by February 2016 and 20 more forensic beds at Rawson-Neal set aside for court-ordered patients.
The unit is meant mainly for Clark County defendants who need treatment to regain competency, and it was built with $12.5 million approved by lawmakers over two years. At the time of the story, 67 mentally ill offenders statewide, 36 of them in Clark County, were waiting in jail for treatment, and a 2014 federal settlement required the state to treat them within seven days.
The opening ended decades in which Lake's Crossing in Sparks was Nevada's only facility of its kind.
Source: Inside Nevada’s newest facility for mentally ill offenders — PHOTOS — Las Vegas Review-Journal, by Yesenia Amaro
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