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Four-Month Wait for 40 Percent of South Carolina Jail Detainees Needing Psychiatric Evaluation

A backlog in court-ordered psychological evaluations had stranded 136 South Carolina detainees in jail by the end of September 2024, nearly 40% of them held over 120 days. Waiting on admission to the state’s forensic psychiatric hospital, some had spent as long as eight months in jail, making their mental ...

 

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