Pennsylvania's competency system leaves people waiting in jail without treatment
An investigative series from Spotlight PA documented how Pennsylvania's competency-evaluation and restoration system leaves defendants sitting in county jails for months without required mental health treatment while awaiting an evaluation or a state hospital bed.
The series set out the specifics of a problem that a follow-up state assessment, published roughly two and a half years later, would go on to describe in starker terms as a system "in crisis."
Source: Competency reviews in PA are trapping people in jails — Spotlight PA, by Danielle Ohl and Brittany Hailer
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