Federal grant funds jail-based competency restoration program in Bexar County
The U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance awarded $550,000 to the Center for Health Care Services and the Bexar County Sheriff's Office to expand pre-booking diversion and stand up a new jail-based competency-restoration track expected to serve roughly 60 people a year.
The grant was an early, comparatively small building block in what would become, five years later, one of the most closely watched competency cases in the country: a federal ruling that Texas's statewide restoration wait times were unconstitutional, with Bexar County's own numbers cited directly in that decision.
Source: Jail Based Competency Restoration and Justice Diversion Expansion — Bureau of Justice Assistance
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