HAYS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — Keeping vulnerable people from sitting in a cell is how Hays County leaders bill the Jail-Based Competency Restoration (JBCR) Program approved Tuesday by Hays County ...
Hays County is starting a new jail-based competency restoration program meant to help inmates who have been deemed incompetent for trial get mental health care. County commissioners took final action ...
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo speaks about the expansion of the county’s Jail-Based Competency Restoration program at the Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD on Feb. 9, 2023. Harris County ...
THRIVE offers jail-based options to address every phase of the competency process in jurisdictions that permit jail-based restoration – from evaluation to restoration through adjudication – while also ...
Shortage of qualified doctors and state hospital capacity means some defendants are released before seeing a forensic ...
Central Texas law enforcement departments have been adding new members to their teams… Furry, four-legged team members. The Kyle Police Department welcomed its ...
Hays County launches jail-based competency restoration program Hays County is starting a new jail-based competency restoration program meant to help incarcerated people who have been deemed ...