Incompetent Texas Pre-Trial Detainees Lose Challenge to Delayed Treatment
Author: Fred Cohen.
Source: Volume 17, Number 01, May/June 2015 , pp.6-6(1)
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Abstract:
Nine pre-trial detainees challenge whether their fundamental constitutional rights were violated in being given low-priority for transfer to a mental hospital for treatment aimed at restoration, no mental health treatment was provided to the detainees held at the jail for periods ranging up to seven months.Keywords: Lakey v. Taylor , 435 S.W.3d 309; wait-listing incompetent detainees; Chapter 46B; competency-restoration treatment
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