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Counselors urge jail access for mental-health evaluators as medication refusal and homelessness prolong hospital waits
Summary
Mental-health providers asked to evaluate inmates in-jail to reduce delays for those deemed incompetent to proceed; Katie Black, inmate mental health counselor, told the committee "we cannot force them to take" prescribed medication, and staff highlighted homelessness and lack of transportation as obstacles to continuity of care.
Unidentified Speaker 3 reported meeting with five representatives of the Mental Health Resource Center (MHRC) who seek permission to enter the jail to evaluate inmates, particularly people deemed incompetent to proceed and awaiting transfer to state hospital care. The group asked the committee to clarify judicial approval…
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