Treatment Advocacy Center report finds Wyoming jail inmates wait the longest for state hospital beds
WyoFile reported that, according to the Treatment Advocacy Center, people in Wyoming jails wait an average of 203 days for admission to the state hospital, and Wyoming has the highest rate nationally of incarcerated people waiting, at 72 per 100,000. More than half of the hospital's beds were occupied by people held through the criminal legal system, including those undergoing competency evaluation or restoration.
A Wyoming Department of Health spokesperson described forensic patients as people at the hospital for a competency evaluation, for restoration, or after a finding of not guilty by reason of mental illness. The hospital has 104 physical beds and had 95 patients as of January 23. The department disputed some of the report's figures on usable beds.
The article gives a public data point on forensic capacity in Wyoming.
Source: Wyoming State Hospital bed shortages continue, report finds — WyoFile, by Madelyn Beck
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