Dallas County will use more than $4 million in its federal COVID-19 dollars to reduce the wait times for inmates to be admitted into state psychiatric...
Dallas County inmates who are stuck waiting months or even years for a state psychiatric bed could see relief with more hospital beds to open.
County staff estimate a year of reserving these beds will help 113 inmates determined to be incompetent to stand trial. The contract promised the health authority up to $4.36 million of its $511 million in federal relief to respond to the pandemic. The federal government included behavioral health care as an approved allocation.
At the end of November, the county reported 366 inmates who were waiting for state psychiatric beds. Of those, 233 inmates are determined to not need maximum security supervision and 133 inmates do. The North Texas Behavioral Health Authority’s beds will be for people who are determined to not need maximum security.
letter to the state asking to help address these wait times, and commissioners discussed suing the state over what they determined to be inadequate help. Some Dallas County inmates wait more than 800 days for hospital admittance, according to state data. The average wait time for those facing nonviolent charges was 160 days; 330 days for those facing violent charges.
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