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Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Rikers Island Detainees Wait in “Black Hole” for Competency Treatment by The number of detainees waiting for competency treatment at New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex jumped from 100 in 2024 to 127 by February 2025. The average length of stay has also risen, from 70 to 80 days, …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Wait for Competency Restoration Averages 14 Months in Missouri Jails by By late January 2025, a critical shortage of providers had stranded 418 detainees waiting for competency restoration in Missouri jails an average of 14 months each. The number wait-listed for the services had jumped from 300 a year earlier, …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Competency Evaluation Ordered for Condemned Utah Prisoner by David Reutter On February 13, 2024, the Third Judicial Circuit Court in and for Salt Lake County, Utah, ordered an examination to determine if death row prisoner Ralph Leroy Menzies, 65, is competent to be executed. Menzies’ attorneys argued that he suffers …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
California Appellate Court: Time Spent in Mental Hospital to Restore Competency is Time Served by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 28, 2023, the CaliforniaThird District Court of Appeals ordered a lower court to recalculate a prisoner’s custody credits for time spent in a facility to bring the …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Washington Racks Up More Than $98 Million in Fines for Failure to Timely Hold Competency Hearings by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett In 2018, the State of Washington reached a settlement to reform its forensic health system. [See: PLN, Aug. 2017, p.22; May 2019, p.54.] As part of the settlement, …