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Judge places new limits on who can be admitted to Oregon State Hospital

tl;dr this is because the state has been failing to comply for over twenty years to give defendants judged incompetent to stand trial speedy access to mental health treatment to restore competency, instead of letting them rot in pre-trial detention with no treatment - which in some cases is a likely cause of irreversible disease progression.

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/06/judge-places-new-limits-on-who-can-be-admitted-to-oregon-state-hospital.htmlOpen linkView original on lemmy.sdf.org
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