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Washington Fined Over $100 Million for Delays in Competency Evaluations and Restoration
Loaded on Feb. 1, 2024
by Douglas Ankney
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2024, page 52
Filed under:
Sanctions,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness),
Civil Commitment,
Competency.
Location:
Washington.
by Douglas Ankney
On July 7, 2023, Judge Marsha J. Pechman of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington found the state Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) in material breach of an agreement that settled a long-running class-action accusing the agency of “violating the constitutional ...
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