Utah funds jail-based competency restoration unit to cut wait times
Utah State Hospital agreed to fund a 16-bed jail-based competency-restoration unit inside the Davis County Jail at $4.1 million a year regardless of occupancy, modeled on an existing Salt Lake County program that had cut restoration wait times from about twelve months to fourteen days.
The program is one of several jail-based restoration models in this backfill — alongside similar efforts in North Carolina and Texas's Bexar County — reflecting a broader national shift toward delivering restoration inside county jails rather than waiting for a state hospital bed to open up.
Source: Utah State Hospital partners with Davis County for Jail-based Competency Restoration program — Davis Journal, by Becky Ginos
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