The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, District Court and mental health providers are launching a new local process for evaluating defendants’ mental competency and offering outpatient treatment for ...

Leading correctional healthcare company, NaphCare , announced it will present a symposium-style seminar at the upcoming Annual Conference of the American Psychology-Law Society (AP-LS) , held March 12 ...

When a defense counsel, prosecutor, or judge has reason to question whether a defendant can rationally assist in their own defense, the court may order a competency evaluation, the most common ...

State Sen. Nathan Manning (R-North Ridgeville) and state Sen. Thomas Patton (R-Strongsville) recently gave sponsor testimony on Senate Bill 295, legislation that would extend the timeline for ...

Senate Bill 1323 took effect in January. Judges must now decide if it's "in the interest of justice" for certain defendants to be restored to competency or placed in an alternative program. Fewer ...

For two years, KXAN investigators have explored a growing backlog of people in Texas jails who need mental competency restoration. While an advisory committee has largely focused on finding state ...

NaphCare and the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office launched the THRIVE Jail-Based Competency Treatment program at the Washoe County Detention Facility.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The deadline to restore competency has been extended in the case of De'Lawnte Hardy, the man accused of killing his own ...

Efforts are ongoing to restore the competency of a Mendocino County man charged with starting a fire that destroyed at least 30 homes in Calpella in September 2021. During a brief hearing in Mendocino ...

PRACTICES AND STANDARDS FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS AND MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES SAY THE NEED FOR REFORM IS URGENT. I’VE BEEN WORKING, DOING COMPETENCY EVALUATIONS FOR EIGHT AND A HALF, ALMOST NINE YEARS NOW, ...