An overhaul of the facility on Applewhite Road is expected to house 130 mental health patients who would otherwise be in the county jail.
Bexar County commissioners are seeking to expand mental health facilities at the Bexar County Applewhite Road Recovery Center.Bexar County commissioners advanced plans Tuesday to renovate and expand the county’s mental health facility on Applewhite Road, including approving the use ofThe project is expected to create a new 39,000-square-foot intake building that can house up to 130 mental health patients — people who would otherwise be in the county jail.
In the meantime, mentally ill inmates are spending an unusually long time in the jail, endangering jail staff, other inmates and themselves,Last year Bexar County committed to use a large share of its federal pandemic relief to address mental illness, including $25 million of the county’s $389 million American Rescue Plan Act dollars for the facility upgrades at 10975 Applewhite Rd.
“We’re trying to accelerate to deliver this project not only to comply with the requirements of the use of ARPA funds, [but also] because we know there’s a real constraint on jail beds right now,” Curry said.for not taking responsibility for inmates deemed incompetent to stand trial, Bexar County leaders have explored a range of options to take matters into their own hands.to treat some inmates while they’re in the jail. That effort is funded by a federal grant.
“We can build the beds to capacity, but we have to make sure that we also have the staff to man them,” he said.
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