Last week's meeting got off to a smooth enough start. Kayla Kates-Brown from Texas’ Health and Human Services Commission, or HHS, read off a few changes to the meeting itinerary. She collected votes from attending members to proceed. The plodding tedium you’d expect from a virtual state government subcommittee meeting seemed...
Sheriff Dennis Wilson wasn't satisfied with Texas' plan to reduce its mental healthcare waitlist - and he let state officials know.Last week's meeting got off to a smooth enough start. Kayla Kates-Brown from Texas’ Health and Human Services Commission, or HHS, read off a few changes to the meeting itinerary. She collected votes from attending members to proceed.
“I’m going to direct a question to you since you’re new to our group: I speak for the Sheriff’s Association of Texas … and those of us who run county jails, we simply want to know what the plan is,” Wilson said. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice administer"competency restoration" programs to these individuals. The goal is not therapeutic; they aim to restore individuals' psychological state to the minimum threshold of mental function necessary to prosecute them.
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