Establishes a program enabling counties to opt-in to allow county jails to operate jail-based competency restoration services for incarcerated individuals deemed unfit for trial due to mental incapacity.
Relating to a jail-based restoration of competency pilot program.
Relating to a jail-based restoration of competency pilot program.
Relating to a county jail-based restoration of competency program.
Provides for the use of restoration services when determining the capacity of a defendant to stand trial.
Provides for the use of restoration services when determining the capacity of a defendant to stand trial.
Relating to county jails and community mental health programs in certain counties.
Relating to the confinement in a county jail of certain defendants who are incompetent to stand trial and to the compensation to the county for the costs of that confinement and of the provision of jail-based competency restoration services.
Proceedings; jail-based competency restoration programs; provide
Requiring the secretary for aging and disability services to reimburse counties for certain costs when a person is in a county jail awaiting examination, evaluation or treatment for competency, modernizing statutes concerning county jails, removing the requirement that every county shall have a jail, modifying procedures used when district courts commit prisoners to jail in another county and when counties contract with city jails to keep prisoners and requiring a medical examination before certain United States prisoners or city prisoners are taken into custody of a county jail.