Tag: Colorado Mental Health Institute
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Work begins on addressing violations at Colorado mental hospital: ‘We’re using a system that doesn’t work now’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As the number of online beds and employees working at the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo continue on a downward trajectory, triage measures to help alleviate the increasingly clogged pipeline for pre-trial criminal defendants waiting in jails for admittance to Colorado’s largest psychiatric hospital…
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Backlog of people waiting for treatment at Colorado’s mental hospital could lead to more death: Report
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save More criminal defendants with untreated psychosis languishing in Colorado jails will maim and kill themselves if the state doesn’t reduce a growing backlog of nearly 350 people waiting for treatment at the state’s primary mental hospital, court-ordered monitoring reports predict. And court documents and budget…
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Spike in suicides at Colorado jail highlights shortfalls of mental health care for those behind bars
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save After a 33-year-old man took his life last week while incarcerated at the El Paso County jail, the number of suicides in the facility since 2019 rose to five, after nearly a decade when none…