Utah settles lawsuit over competency-treatment wait times
The Disability Law Center's 2015 class action over months-long waits for treatment at Utah State Hospital ended in a settlement that phased maximum wait times down from months to 60, then 30, then 14 days over an 18-month period, along with a mandated 72-hour initial screening protocol for new detainees.
The settlement's staged approach — progressively tighter deadlines rather than one immediate standard — was among the more gradual compliance schedules found in this backfill, and appears to have held up better over time than some other states' single-step settlements.
Source: Utah Settles Federal Suit Alleging Delays in Competency Treatment for Pre-trial Detainees — Prison Legal News, by Derek Gilna
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